Behold thy portrait!--day by day, I’ve seen its features die; First the moustachios go away, Then off the whiskers fly.
That nose I loved to gaze upon, That bold and manly brow, Are vanish’d, fled, completely gone-- Alas! where are they now?
[Illustration: BOBBY’S CAMERA: _S^{ O}ME·EFFECTS·HE·GOT·WITH·IT_.]
Thy hair, which once was black and bright, Much worse than grey has grown; Indeed, I scarce can say ’tis white, For ’t has completely flown.
Those speaking eyes, which made me trust In all you used to vow, Are like two little specks of dust-- Alas! where are they now?
[Illustration: INTERESTING GROUP POSED FOR A PHOTOGRAPH.--I.
[Illustration: INTERESTING GROUP POSED FOR A PHOTOGRAPH.--II.
But, ah!--thy portrait of thy love Is but a type, no doubt, And serves its fickleness to prove, For soon ’tis all wiped out.
Thy hair, thy whiskers, and thine eyes, Moustachios, manly brow, Have vanished as affection flies-- Alas!--where is it now?
Ingenious Jones sits for his portrait to a peripatetic photographer, and cunningly places himself exactly between the apparatus and the unconscious Oriana, whom he worships at a respectful distance, and whose likeness he would fain possess.
[_On this page the reader will find, all framed and glazed, for 3s. 6d. complete, Ingenious Jones’s Happy Thought’s result._]
PHOTOGRAPHER (_to Mr. Simpkins_). Keep your head steady, please, sir, and look in the direction of those young ladies. Steady now, sir! Don’t wink, sir!
MRS. S. (_by a look that Mr. S. quite understood_). Just let me see him wink!!]
OLD GIRL. Oh, I’ve brought back these cartes of mine, Mr. Kammerer. My friends are very dissatisfied. They----
PHOTOGRAPHER. Dear me, mum, I’m extremely sorry; I thought the portrait very----
GEORGINA (_in riding habit_). Well dear! I declare it’s the very image of you! I _never_!
SARAH JANE (_who insists upon seeing the plate_). Like me? for goodness’ sake don’t be ridiculous, Georgina. I think it’s perfectly absurd! Why, it has given me a stupid little turn-up nose, and a mouth that’s absolutely enormous!]
_A Stereoscopic Scene from Fashionable Life in 1857._
“_Love, Pride, Revenge._” The group represents a young minstrel of humble origin, declaring his passion to a lady of noble parentage. Her haughty brother, as may be seen from his menacing attitude, is about to avenge the insult offered to his family!]