"I thought you said four o'clock, my dear fellow?"

"So I did, but it is now five."

"Yes, but four always means five."

"Not with those who tell the truth, and as I am one of that sort, you will know I mean what I say in future; but sit down 'better late than never.'—Mary bring the fragments."

George Cruikshank's "Illustrations of Time."

GALLERY OF COMICALITIES—No. LXII.

"WASTE OF TIME."