Miss Daisy Ashford seems to have foreseen this development when she wrote of Mr. Salteena’s “compartments.”
THE RELUCTANT THRUSTER.
Mr. Asquith (performing the function of a battering-ram). “I CONFESS THAT AT MY TIME OF LIFE I SHOULD HAVE PREFERRED A MORE SEDENTARY IF LESS HONORIFIC SPHERE OF USEFULNESS.”
Profiteer (after trying a variety of patterns without success). “Well, it looks pretty ’opeless when they won’t ’ave a gold fly. What do they expect—diamonds?”