OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
Reading edition
"Before you finish your whiff and depart to dress for dinner," quoth the Baron, "just read through Mr. Escott's article in the Fort-nightly." If you lived in Literary Bohemia many years ago, it will revive pleasant memories, and if you didn't, it will interest those who did with whom, in conversation at dinner, you can start the subject. Bohemia exists always; only, as Mr. Laudator Temporis Acti will, of course, sing, it was at its best in
"The days when we went gipseying A long time ago!"
"Glad to see Mr. Escott's pen at work again," quoth the kindly
Baron de B.-W.
PROFESSIONAL INSTINCT.
Kindly Gentleman (from True Blue Club). "And what has brought you to this deplorable condition? Drink?—Gambling?"
Gentleman of the Pavement (spotting his man). "No, indeed, Sir; my misfortunes are entirely attributable to Free Trade, Monometallism, and the Death Duties."
[Immediate relief on a generous scale.