[Illustration: Cicero Against Verres.]
[Illustration: Sac-r-r-r-ré.]
The head waiter informed Mr. Figgs that with his permission a deputation would wait on him. Mr. Figgs was surprised but graciously invited the deputation to walk in. They accordingly walked in. Seventeen men and five boys.
"What did they want?"
"Oh, only a _pourboire_ with which to drink his Excellency's noble health."
"Really they did his Excellency too much honor. Were they not mistaken in their man?"
"Oh no. They had carried his luggage into the hotel."
Upon this Mr. Figgs gave strong proof of poor moral training, by breaking out into a volley of Western oaths, which shocked one half of the deputation, and made the other half grin.