[Cheers from Tenantry, as the Earl leads the way into the Castle with Mrs. Horehound, followed by Horehound with the Countess and Coltsfoot with Lady Rose, Lord Bullsaye, discomfited and abashed, entering last as Curtain falls.]
KICKED!
(By the Foot of Clara Groomley.)
Chapter IV. and Last.
In the little sitting-room above his shop sat Mr. Assid Ropes. It was the afternoon before Christmas Day. He had generously allowed all his assistants to leave. "If anybody wants their hair cut, or their hat ironed," he said, "I'll do it myself, and then they'll wish they hadn't."
Yet, when a customer rapped on the floor below, Mr. Ropes felt exceedingly angry.
"What do you want?" he called down the stairs.
"I want my hat ironed," said a clear, manly voice.
"Go away! Your hat doesn't want ironing. Go to bed!"