RATHER SUSPICIOUS.
Mistress (to Housekeeper, after "the Young Person" has left the room). "Really, Wilkins, I could not engage that Young Person. She is too Ugly by far!"
Housekeeper. "Very sorry, Mum. But you said so particularly that I was to look out for a good Plain Cook,—'quite a Plain Cook,' you said, Mum,—that I thought you had some Particular Reason——"
Very Natural.—Mrs. R. pays great attention to the Parliamentary debates, and listens attentively while her Nephew reads the speeches as reported in The Times. Last Thursday he was in the midst of the discussion on the Welsh Liquor-Traffic Bill, and came to this: "Mr. Lloyd-George, whose opening remarks were interrupted by a Count——" Whereupon his Aunt exclaimed, "How very rude! What was the Count's name? And how does a Count come to be in the House of Commons?"