From the Idler, vol. 9 (1896):

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"I respected the wishes of the donkey, therefore, and drew the line, henceforward, at six songs." [The donkey is pulling a cart or something, and is therefore a captive audience for the amateur singer.]

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"I think it's so clever for children to be--to be--what is the word?--clever.
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[Notes on some of the attachments...]

[The passage about accidental bohemians is from a piece wherein a staff of bald barbers is rounded up to cater to balding men who are intimidated by barbers with full heads of hair.]

["Five O'clock Tea": In which Art Nouveau precurses Billy's dotted-line excursions in The Family Circus?]

["Sanders Old Chap": Ha! Having been addressed thus by his colleague, the phrase slips into place as his "official" character name.]

["She must have much more time to think about it": That was what the caption told us. (I couldn't get the caption to fit legibly into my screen capture.)]

["Teasing a picture": The context, in case it's not self-evident, is the challenge of painting versus writing.]

["The wrong ghost": The illustrator seems to have goofed here: in the story, it's the gentleman at left whose presence has startled the narrator-protagonist, whose appearance in the various illustrations consistently matches that of the gentleman at right (Perkins, as seen in "I shouldn't sign this," seated at left as if he's having his portrait painted by a Royal Academician, and has no intention of signing anything anytime soon.). P.S. The landlady in these stories is called Mrs. Nix. Meanwhile, in some other piece, we have a Mrs. Trivett.]