AER
Medium (sotto voce).—No, that can't be right.
O. J. L. (ditto).—I don't know; it may be. Go on.
OPLANE.
O. J. L.—You mean that Mitchell is an aeroplane officer?
"Yes" (very loud).
M. F. A. L. (misunderstanding, and thinking that he had said that he would like an aeroplane in preference to a Ford).—Still at your jokes, Raymond!
Yes.
(Then again the table indicated, by slight rocking, that the alphabet was wanted; and it spelt:—)
RAYMOND IS BEATING U.