Twentiethly.—Theological discussion generally comes in after dinner with the third bottle of wine.
Moral.—Get to the fourth as quickly as possible.
Twenty-onethly.—Life is a perpetual Epitaph.
Moral.—Better than most epitaphs, because it's short. If you've got to write one remember this.
The last is so melancholy that I can only sit down and think. At present this will do for my Sunday Meditations.
THE MEDITATIONIST.
[CHAPTER XXII.]
THE PROGRAMME—THE FARCE.