UNEXPECTED EFFECT.

Snooks (who fancies himself very much). “What’s she crying for?”

Arabella. “It’s all right, Sir. She was frightened. When she saw you she thought it was a Man!”

RECKONING HIM UP.

Old Lady (describing a cycling accident). “’E elped me hup, an’ brushed the dust off on me, an’ put five shillin’ in my ’and, an’ so I says, ‘Well, Sir, I’m sure you’re hactin’ like a gentleman,’ I says, ‘though I don’t suppose you are one,’ I says.”

SHAKSPEARE ILLUSTRATED.

“The Glass of Fashion and the Mould of Form.”

Hamlet, Act III., Sc. 1.