Cling-cling! Curting rising? Well, 'ere goes once more then! (Winding hard and addressing audience). "Ladies and gen'l'men! The Himperial and Royal Grand Unionist Combination Waxworks Show is about to start for the season! Largest and most life-like set o' wax figgers ever exhibited to a hadmiring public!! As I wind you will perceive hunmistakeable signs of hanimation in 'is Grace the Nobble Dook; arter wich, with your kyind permission, I shall take a turn at the Illustrous Markis!!!"
"WINDING 'EM UP."
Showman Joe. "LADIES AND GEN'L'MEN, 'IS GRACE THE DOOK WILL SHORTLY BEGIN TO SHOW SIGNS OF HANIMATION—HAFTER WHICH, WITH YOUR KIND PERMISSION, I WILL PERCEED TO TAKE A TURN AT THE MARKIS!"
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, REVOLTING MAID?
(New Song to an Old Tune, for the New Woman.)
[The Quarterly Review says that man will not marry the New Woman, which must be the final blow to her ambition.]
"Where are you going, Revolting Maid?" "As far as I may, fair Sir," she said.