OLD GENTLEMAN (politely). "Oh, Conductor! I shall feel greatly obliged to you if you would proceed, for I have an appointment in the Strand, and I am afraid I shall be too late."

CONDUCTOR (slamming the door). "Go on, Jim! Here's an old cove a cussin' and a swearin' like anythink!!!"

CONDUCTOR. "Will any gent be so good as for to take this young lady in his lap ?"

Our friend BRIGGS contemplates

The Picnic.

CONTENTED MAN (loq.). "What a nice, damp place we have secured; and how very
fortunate we are in the weather; it would have been so provoking for us all to have
brought our umbrellas and then to have had a fine day!! Glass of wine, BRIGGS, eh?"