Punch (91.1886)

November 27, 1886.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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AN EVENING FROM HOME BY THE LIGHT OF DAY."

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ifn Pcier Dumpkin, who expects to be appointed one of the Middlesex Magistracy, was so struck by the self-sacrificing practicality of
Mr. Justice Day {as recorded in the "Daily Telegraph") in being personally conducted through the Liverpool slums and visiting the "Loose Box,"
that he informed a friend, that, as he will have to vote for granting licences to various places of refreshment and entertainment, he felt it his
bounden duty to make a personal inspection of some of the most notable among them at any risk. His friend, who happened to be an expert,
offered to see Mr. Dumpkin through it for one night only. The above series faithfully represents Peters Progress.

A PEETTY DANCE.
My Deae Me. Punch,

1 must admit that I was extremely surprised to see in the
columns of the Times that the critic of that paper had discovered no
plot in the new hallet at the Alhamhra entitled Bresdina. I was
present at the initial performance, and I must confess was deeply-
interested in the dance-drama in question. The story was simple but

exciting. A number of Hungarian students are engaged in learnin;
dancing at a German University, when they are attacked by a bam
of robbers disguised as muleteers. They upon this take to drinking,
when the chief of the false muleteers is so shocked by the occurrence
that he and his troupe give up brigandage, and form themselves into
an itinerant street orchestra. A lady (who I cannot help fancying must
have been known in those parts as the " Maid of the Mill") appears
and flirts with the reformed robber-chief, but subsequently coquets