The lesson seems to be simple, and perhaps a little trite, but if you look into it, it will be found to contain nearly all that is necessary.
But the excellence of each individual picture as it is drawn is not the less striking because there may be found some fault with the series as a whole.

What can excel the telling of the story of Captain Shindy at his club,--which is, I must own, as true as it is graphic.

Captain Shindy is a real snob.

"'Look at it, sir; is it cooked?
Smell it, sir.

Is it meat fit for a gentleman ?' he roars out to the steward, who stands trembling before him, and who in vain tells him that the Bishop of Bullocksmithy has just had three from the same loin." The telling as regards Captain Shindy is excellent, but the sidelong attack upon the episcopate is cruel.