"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."