Why should you not believe me when I assure you that it is a mistake when you fancy I have come to sketch the outworks of the frontier fortress?
Why should you not credit my assertion that I only procured a circular ticket because I wanted to see foreign parts and taste foreign cookery?
Why, after all this worry and anxiety, should you mumble something about "misapprehension," and bundle me out without an apology?
The Runner Nuisance.—"T. L.," writing to The Times about the nuisance of "cab-runners" in the London streets, says, "a stream that cannot be dammed can be turned." But this stream of "cab-runners" is being daily and hourly so treated, of course only by male occupants of cabs carrying luggage, and the runners take nothing but "damnum et injuriam" for their pains. But when the travellers with impedimenta are ladies or ladies' maids, and nurses with children, then evidently this objectionable stream cannot be "dammed" unless the butler or a stalwart footman be at home to receive Mesdames les voyageuses. In these cases, Eve travelling ought to have Adam handy.
WHAT BROWN HAS TO PUT UP WITH.
The Throat Doctor. "And does your little Boy ever Snore, Mrs. Brown?"
Mrs. Brown. "I don't think so. He always sleeps in our Room, and we've never noticed it!"