E. F.—But, your Egcellenza, shall ve haf der onterventionings alreaty yet? I burn mit ombatience!
P. McK. (to servant)—The gentleman burns. Put him out.
[Exit Envoy Fischer, pursued.]
Voices (within)—Hurrah! Hurrah for the Boer Republic!
P. McK.—There must be an unusual number of Congressmen in the waiting room.
THE ORDEAL
An Historian. Clio.
Historian (writing)—“The Yanko-Spanko war was brief, but very destructive. In the two or three months that it lasted the Americans had more than three thousand soldiers and a half-dozen sailors killed by the Spaniards and—”
Clio—Tut-tut! no romancing; less than three hundred were killed.