Superior Studies.
Literature and Philosophy Class for Female Students.
Master. What is the analogy between Hamlet and Mirabeau?
First Girl (rising). I know. (Pause, then suddenly, and with determination.) Mirabeau didn't get on well with his father, and Hamlet was at daggers drawn with his uncle.
[Reseats herself triumphantly.
Resetting an Old Saw.—The descriptive writer in the Daily Telegraph, giving his account of the opening of Parliament, observed that "Hypercritics have combated the generally accepted axiom that one pea entirely resembles another," and he went on to show how one parliamentary crowd resembled any other parliamentary crowd at the initial ceremony. Assuming therefore this similarity, suppose we re-set the old saw, and say, "As like as two M.P.'s."