What for?
Well, . . . he hesitates, then says, politely, that with all young ones, won't Mrs. Boodels be rather dull?
THE “LEADING HEAVY.”
“But—soft! I must dissemble!”
(Happy Thought.—Old man for Mrs. Boodels, to talk to her through her ear-trumpet.)
Boodels says, “Oh, no! his grandmother's never dull.”
Milburd observes, that this choosing is like making up characters for a play. He takes in a theatrical newspaper, and proposes that we should set down what we want, after the style in which the managers frame their advertisements.
Wanted.—A First Old Man. Also A Leading Heavy.
He proposes “Byrton—Captain Byrton. He was in a dragoon regiment.”
Happy Thought.—Good for “Leading Heavy.”