Chapter I

PHIL MAY'S

GUTTER-SNIPES

The impressions herein are extra carefully printed as _PROOFS_ on fine paper, and the issue is limited to one thousand and fifty copies, of which this is No. =462=.

A paper-covered edition, on thinner paper, at a popular price, will follow.

PHIL MAY'S

GUTTER-SNIPES

50
ORIGINAL SKETCHES
IN PEN & INK.

LONDON:
THE LEADENHALL PRESS, LIMITED.
(THESE SKETCHES xxHAVE BEENxx ARE SEPARATELY COPYRIGHTED)

COPYRIGHT 1896
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

THIS TO THAT.]

DRAWINGS

1 GRACE! FRONTISPIECE

2 TITLE.

3 DEDICATION.

4 INTRODUCTION.

5 SHUTTLECOCK.

6 A GUTTER-BALL.

7 PLAYING AT SOLDIERS.

8 WATER-WORKS.

9 A GAME AT BALL.

10 LONGING FOR LICKINGS.

11 LUXURIES.

12 "ORRIBLE AND RE-VOLTIN' DETAILS, SIR!"

13 PLUNDERERS.

14 LOST.

15 HOMELESS.

16 THE SLIDE.

17 THE FIRST SMOKE.

18 BROTHER ARTISTS.

19 BITS & SCRAPS.

20 PEG-TOP.

21 TANTALIZING!

22 SEE-SAW.

23 HONEY-POTS.

24 SNOWBALLING.

25 "BOX O' LIGHTS, MY LORD?"

26 MUDLARKS.

27 A SWELL.

28 BUTTONS.

29 FAIRIES.

30 "WHIP-BEHIND."

31 "WILL IT BE ME?"

32 "'EAR Y'ARE SIR!"

33 "THREE SHIES A PENNY."

34 "GIVE US A BITE."

35 WHAT BETSY-ANN MAKES OF IT.

36 HOP-SCOTCH.

37 MARBLES.

38 OLD FRIENDS.

39 AN ADEPT.

40 "REMEMBER, REMEMBER!"

41 PLAYING AT HORSES.

42 "SWEEP YOUR DOOR AWAY, MUM?"

43 A DAY IN THE COUNTRY.

44 HIDE & SEEK.

45 TWO PENNORTH.

46 RUGBY RULES.

47 LITTLE MOTHERS.

48 WHISTLING THE LAST NEW TUNE.

49 A MISUNDERSTANDING.

50 LEAP-FROG.

51 BOB-IN-THE-CAP.

52 TIP-CAT.

53 ACROBATS.

54 GUTTER GYMNASTICS.

June 30th. 96.

My Dear Tuer

Here is the last of the Gutter snipe drawings and sorry I am to
leave them! Children of the gutter roam about free and are often
hungry, but what would one give for such appetites? You and I smoke
big cigars while they--all too soon, poor little chaps--smoke what
you and I and others throw away. Sometimes I wonder whether they
don't lead the happier lives?

Yours always

Phil May

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DEPARTING GUEST. "WILL YOU CALL ME A CAB?"

BETSY-ANN. "ANSOM, FOUR-WHEELER OR MOVER, SIR?"

(A =TIMES= CORRESPONDENT SUGGESTS THAT THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE BE CALLED AN "AUTO-MOVER")]

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PHIL MAY'S

FIFTY-TWO

ORIGINAL DESIGNS

forming

TWO HUMOROUS ALPHABETS

from

A TO Z

LONDON

THE LEADENHALL PRESS LIMITED.

_Each initial has been separately copyrighted._

READY IN JANUARY

Transcriber's Notes:

Punctuation and formatting markup have been normalized.

Apparent printer's errors have been retained.

The words struck out on the title page have been surrounded by "xx" to show the strikethrough.

Underlined words and passages have been surrounded by "=".

Tags for illustrations appear in the same order as the original. In some cases, this varies from the order stated in the Table of Drawings.

Page 12, Period added. (You and I smoke big cigars while they--all too soon, poor little chaps--smoke what you and I and others throw away.)