"BY PROXY."
Humorous Little Boy. "Plea' sir, will you ring the bottom bell but one, four times, sir?"
Old Gent (gouty, and a little deaf, but so fond o' children). "Bottom bell but one, four times, my boy?" (Effusively.) "Certainly, that I will!"
[In the meantime off go the boys, and, at the third peal, the irritable old lady on the ground floor——Tableau!
News from Home.—Aunt Mary. "I've just had a letter from your papa, Geoffrey. He says you've got a little brother, who'll be a nice companion for you some day!" Geoffrey. "Oh!——does mummy know?"
