Fond Parent. I don’t care, Mr. Medium, about it’s being highly finished; but I should like the dear child’s expression preserved.
First author. “Well, what do you think of the book of our colleague Tintinger?”
Second Author. “Oh, what a shameless bidder for notoriety!”
“What! How so?”
“Did you not read the dedication, ‘To my mother-in-law, with sincere esteem’?”
First Artist. Well, are you satisfied with the appreciation that marine view of yours has received?
Second Artist. Delighted. Two women just stopped in front of it and one said to the other, “It just makes me seasick to look at it.”
