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ther, what--even Programmes--shall part us? _Cox._ Who--even--ahem! a certain Party, shall tear us asunder? _Box._ COX! _Cox._ BOX! [_About to embrace._ BOX _stops, seizes_ COX's _hand, and looks eagerly in his face._ _Box._ You'll excuse the apparent insanity of the remark, but the more I gaze on your features, the more I'm convinced that you'd never be such a suicidal idiot as to--seek another Chamber? _Cox_ (_winking_). Walker! _Box._ Ah--tell me--in mercy tell me--have you such a thing as the "Strawberry Leaves" in your eye? _Cox._ No! _Box._ Then we _are_ brothers! [_They rush into each other's arms._ _Cox._ Of course, we stop where we are? _Box._ Of course! _Cox._ For between you and me, I'm rather partial to the House. _Box._ So am I--I feel quite at home in it. _Cox._ Everything so clean and comfortable! _Box._ And I'm sure its Mistress, Mrs.--ahem!--from what little _I've_ seen of her, is very anxious to do her best. _Cox._ So she is--and I vote, Box, that we stand by her! _Box._ Agreed! (_winks._) There's my hand upon it--join but yours--agree that the House is big enough to hold us both, then Box---- _Cox._ And Cox---- _Both._ Are satisfied! [_Curtain._ * * * * * FACT, OR FUNK? SIR,--Will you permit me to protest against the shocking insecurity of life and property in London? What are the Police doing? Only yesterday I was walking, _in the middle of the day_, in a rather quiet road in this suburb, when a _highway robber_, disguised as an ordinary beggar, asked me for a copper! His look was _most forbidding_, and he put his hand under his coat in a way that convinced me he was about to _draw a revolver_! I at once gave him my purse, with half-a-crown in it, which seemed to pacify him, and I am convinced that I owe my life to my _presence of mind_. The shock, however, has quite prostrated me, and my medical adviser has already paid me _three visits_, on the strength of it, and says I need "careful watching for some time." He has very kindly put off a holiday, in order to watch me, which is sufficient to prove what a _diabolical outrage_ I have been the victim of! Yours, indignantly, _Cozynook, Sydenham._ TABITHA GRUNDY. DEAR MR. PUNCH,--We are coming to a really awful state of things in the Strand! A friend of mine (wh
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