"They are all there, Sir!" cried the urchin, returning at the moment out of breath from running, "and there's a nice row at the Institution!"
"What the Committee of Inspection!" exclaimed Jowler, seizing his hat, "Oh, what have you been doing? Why the place will be ruined!" And he hurried off followed by the urchin.
The next morning I got a letter from Jowler, saying that he would never forgive me, as, by my "want of tact with the Committee of Inspection, I had ruined a widow and five small children," and, to make matters worse, I have been subsequently informed, in a satirical communication signed "Mordaunt, Brown, Jones and Snobkins," that my opinion is not one they can conscientiously adopt without further advice, "as my knowledge of Mexican Law seems to be of a superficial description."
It is a painful experience, and none the less painful because I have to add it to a number of experiences of a not entirely dissimilar character.
A. Briefless,
Junior.