A SLIGHT CONFUSION OF IDEAS.

Local Hatter. "I 'ope you'll excuse my calling, Sir George; but I 'eard as her Ladyship was going to give a Play in the Grounds—a Pastoral Play, they told me—so I made so bold as jest to come round and say as I'd got a large assortment of Clerical 'Ats, and that I should be most 'appy to put 'em at her Ladyship's disposal!"