PROVERB FOR CHAPERONS.
Reading edition
Flirts of a feather spoon together; Amorous pairs flock on the stairs.
Jap and Chin.—"What a curious metamorphosis!" writes to us our esteemed contributor-at-a-distance, Herr von Sagefried. "Herr John Chinaman is suing for peace! so that the Chinese party becomes the real Chap-on-knees!"
Comment by a Laboucherian.—Resolutions cannot be made with Rosebery.
The New Man.—Woman.
Minister. "Oh dear, no, James. There'll be no necessity for Whisky in Heaven."
Parishioner (dubiously). "Necessity or no necessity, I maun say I aye like to see it on the Table!"