Podb. Rath-er! But then she's no end of a classical swell, you know! [Sighs.
Culch. (putting his arm through PODBURY's.) Ah, well, my dear PODBURY, one mustn't expect too much, must one?)
Podb. I don't, old chap—only I'm afraid she does. Suppose we toddle back to the hotel, eh? Getting near table d'hôte time.
[They go out arm-in-arm.
'ARRY IN ROME AND LONDON.
A kind Correspondent calls Mr. Punch's attention to the fact that 'ARRY the Ubiquitous crops up even in the Classics, as ARRIUS, in fact, in Carmen lxxxiv. of CATULLUS. How proud 'ARRY will be to hear of his classical prototype! Our Correspondent "dropping into verse," exclaims:—
Yes! Your Cockney is eternal;
ARRIUS speaks in 'ARRY still: