Panic in the City
TIME—3.30 P.M.
Excited Stockbroker.—By Jove! it's serious now.
Other dittos. Hey? what?
Excited Stockbroker. Rothschild's "gone"—
Clients (new to City, thunderstruck). Gone! Rothschild!!—but—
Excited Stockbroker. Yes. Gone to Paris.
[Exit.
What to Expect at an Hotel.—Inn-attention.
A Question for Lloyd's.—Are sub-editors underwriters?
Incidents of Taxation.—Collectors and summonses.
What a City Company does.—It may not be generally known that the duty of the Spectacle-makers is to get up the Lord Mayor's Show. Glasses round, and then they proceed to business.
Impossible Phrase.—The happy rich, the happy poor, both quite possible. But, "the happy mean"—oh no—impossible.
Song for the Town-tied Sportsman.—"How happy could I be with heather!"
