Flunkeiana.-Enter THOMAS, who gives warning.

GENTLEMAN. "Oh, certainly! you can go, of course; but, as you have been with me
for nine years, I should like to know the reason."

THOMAS. "Why, sir, it's my feelins. You used always to read prayers, sir, yourself-
and since Miss WILKINS has been here, she's bin a-reading of 'em. Now, I can't bemean
myself by saying 'amen' to a guv'ness.'

"

These young gentlemen are not indulging in the filthy habit of smoking. They are only chewing toothpicks, the comforting and elegant practice now so much in vogue.

[Vide Public Streets, particularly St. James's Street, Regent Street, Bond Street, and Her Majesty's Park of Hyde.

LADY. "Oxford! Rather a nice place, is it not?"

YOUNG OXFORD. "Hum!-haw! Pretty well, but then I can't

get on without female society!"

LADY. "Dear! dear! Pity you don't go to a girls' school, then!"

Master JACKEY, having seen a "professor" of posturing, has a private

performance of his own in the nursery.