Witness.  Bankruptcy should be legally abolished.

Question.  Should employers have no money to pay the employed?

Witness.  That duty should be discharged by the Government.

Question.  But bow should the loss be supplied—­by the imposition of new taxes?

Witness.  Certainly not.  Taxation should be entirely abolished.

Question.  Then how could your scheme be carried out?

Witness (courteously).  That is a matter I leave entirely to the discretion of the Government.

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[Illustration:  INDEX]

  ABC of Ibsenity (The), 239
  About the Court, 147
  Accident on the Ice, 35
  Acting—­on a Suggestion, 120
  Adopted Child (The), 222
  “Advance, Australia!” 126, 268
  Agricultural Tripos (An), 221
  Alarmed Autocrat (The), 282
  All Adrift; or, Three Men in a Punt, 270
  Among the Immortals, 217
  Amusing Rattle’s Note-Book for 1891
    (The), 12, 36, 45
  Another’s, 177
  Another Telephonic Suggestion, 150
  Appropriate, 12
  Arbitration, 30
  Aristotelian Treasure-Trove, 57
  Arthur and Composer, 65
  Artist and a Whistler (An), 72
  “As Easy as ABC,” 309
  Athletics, 123
  At the End of the Year, 9, 23
  Auditors in Wonderland, 15
  BACCHUS Outwitted; or, The Triumph of Sobriety, 203
  Baconian Theory (A), 210
  Bar Barred! 145
  Bendigo, 287
  “Beroofen!” 281
  “Better Late than Never!” 71, 157
  Bitter Cry of Outcast Competition, 255
  Blondel up to Date, 144
  “Blood” v.  “Bullion,” 234
  Boat-Race Ten Years Hence (The), 137
  Bogey, Man! (The), 63
  Bowls, 233
  Bow-wow! 193
  Bravo, Bagshawe! 98
  Breach of Veracity (A), 27
  Breakfast Table-Talk, 254
  Bruin Junior, 62
  Brum and the Oologist, 99
  Brummagem Bolus (A), 173
  Brustle’s Bishop, 64
  Bumble at Home, 18
  Burns versus Burns, 26
  ’Busmen’s Alphabet (The), 287
  ’Bus ’Oss’s Mems (A), 289
  By a Tired and Cynical Critic of Current Fiction, 123
  CANADIAN Calendar (A), 99
  Can a Man Imprison his Wife? 209
  Candour in Court, 93
  Canine Confidences, 39
  Can(nes)did Confession (A), 78
  Capital and Labour Forecast, 51
  Celt again! 108
  Chambers in St. James’s Street, 120
  Change for Thirty-five Shillings, 246
  Change of Initials, 45