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Manager (who has just sighted his man, in Stage whisper). "You Idiot! He's a Subscriber!!"
WAITING FOR NASRULLA.
["The original arrangements for Nasrulla Khan's reception in London have undergone considerable alteration."—Daily Paper.]
"Of course we ought to act on precedent." said Wise Man Number One. "We can't be far out if we do that."
"I am not so sure," replied Number Two of the Series. "When the Shah came over we gave him a prize-fight at Buckingham Palace, and the entertainment subsequently caused much hostile criticism in Clapham."
"It is to be regretted," sighed the Third, "that the Polytechnic Institution no longer exists. It would have amused his Highness to have descended in the diving bell."
"No doubt," put in the initial speaker; "but something of the same effect might be obtained by conducting Nasrulla either to the Museum of Mines in Jermyn Street or the Diploma Gallery at Burlington House."
"Quite so. And what do you say to the Natural History Museum, and a special visit in semi-state to the top of the Monument?"