Smith. Yes, and when there's nothing in them!

[They resume perusal of their papers until interrupted by a tunnel. Curtain.


THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

Oh, Sir, I read the papers every day,

To amuse myself and pass the time away;

But they've got so hard to follow that they simply beat me hollow

With the learning and the culture they display;

And they wouldn't be so hard if those good people down at Cardiff