Mr. Trillo.—Revive the Athenian theatre; regenerate the lyrical drama.
Mr. Toogood.—Build a grand co-operative parallelogram, with a steam-engine in the middle for a maid of all work.
Mr. Firedamp.—Drain the country, and get rid of malaria, by abolishing duck-ponds.
Dr. Morbific.—Found a philanthropic college of anticontagionists, where all the members shall be inoculated with the virus of all known diseases. Try the experiment on a grand scale.
Mr. Chainmail.—Build a great dining-hall; endow it with beef and ale, and hang the hall round with arms to defend the provisions.
Mr. Henbane.—Found a toxicological institution for trying all poisons and antidotes. I myself have killed a frog twelve times, and brought him to life eleven; but the twelfth time he died. I have a phial of the drug, which killed him, in my pocket, and shall not rest till I have discovered its antidote.
The Rev. Dr. Folliott.—I move that the last speaker be dispossessed of his phial, and that it be forthwith thrown into the Thames.
Mr. Henbane.—How, sir? my invaluable, and, in the present state of human knowledge, infallible poison?
The Rev. Dr. Folliott.—Let the frogs have all the advantage of it.
Mr. Crotchet.—Consider, Doctor, the fish might participate. Think of the salmon.