THINGS ONE WOULD RATHER HAVE EXPRESSED DIFFERENTLY.

She. "And you'll have to make a Speech after Dinner, won't you?"

He. "Oh—I shall Just have to talk a little Nonsense to them, you know!"

She. "Ah—And Nobody's better qualified to do that than Yourself!"


THE STOUT SINGER'S SMILE.

O buxom maiden, blithe and gay,

With movements light and airy,

Some five-and-twenty stone you weigh,

Fair, fat and forty fairy!