REMARKABLE CASE OF TABLE-TALKING.
Table (loquitur). "DON'T YOU BELIEVE HIM, MUM—I'M NOT MAHOGANY, BUT I'M VENEERED AND SECOND-HAND."
[Table dances about on its legs for a considerable time, and vanishes in a blue flame.
THE FOUR-IN-HAND MANIA.
Hearse Driver (to Swell, who has just started a Team). "BEG PARDON, SIR, BUT HEARING AS YOU HAD STARTED FOUR 'OSSES, I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT WANT A YOUNG MAN AS COULD BRING YOUR COACH UP TO THE DOOR AS IT 'AD OUGHT TO BE!"
TOUCHING.
Friend. "——AND WHAT BECOME OF HER?"