AN EFFECT OF SHYNESS.
Proud Mamma. "Which do you think Effy's most like, Mr. Jinks?—her Father, or Me?"
Mr. Jinks. "Oh—a—I should say she's a Plain Likeness of her Father——I mean—a—Handsome Likeness of her Mother—a—I mean—a—a——" [Stammers hopelessly, upsets his Tea, and wishes himself unborn.
THE ASSAULT!!
Beleaguers babble around the Battering-Ram:—
Balfourius (musingly). "Heroes tall
Dislodging pinnacle and parapet
Upon the tortoise creeping to the wall."
Chamberlainus (sardonically). Heroes tall, indeed! Have the distressed defenders of this untenable Citadel any such? Gladstonius is a sort of hero, perhaps, but hardly tall; Harcourtius is tall indeed, but no hero. Aha!