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This page contains three distinct pieces: **"Avi Scissors, Avi Nullus"** (top): A satirical cartoon contrasting literary conventions with real life. The text discusses how books portray fainting women dramatically (like fainting upon hearing of an old sweetheart's marriage), but real-life Daysey Mayme simply fainted over hosiery prices—a mundane, humorous deflation of romantic tropes. **"Relics" section**: Satirizes auction mania by proposing ridiculous items for sale: yarn from Mary's Little Lamb and the horn of Boy Blue (from nursery rhymes). It mocks how people will pay inflated prices for trivial items with celebrity or literary connections. **"The Leader" cartoon (center)**: A darkly comic illustration showing a pedestrian at a street intersection narrowly avoiding multiple disasters—a car, motorcycle, taxicab, and falling airship—only to be run over by a subway train emerging from a manhole. It satirizes urban traffic hazards and ironic fate. The page also contains period advertisements for Dean's Cakes and Usher's Whisky.

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