Lucullus Brown (on hospitable purpose intent). "Are you Dining anywhere to-morrow night?"
Jones (not liking to absolutely "give himself away"). "Let me see"—(considers)—"No; I'm not Dining anywhere to-morrow."
Lucullus Brown (seeing through the artifice). "Um! Poor chap! How Hungry you will be!"
["Exeunt,—severally."
THE ROYAL WELSH BARD.
[The Prince of Wales was initiated as a Bard the other day at the Carnarvon Eisteddfod.]
The Minstrel-Prince to his Wales has gone,
In the ranks of the Bards you'll find him;
His bardic cloak he has girded on,