Lord D-nr-v-n. Must find out what I really mean by "Fair Trade." Write to Notes and Queries, and see if I can't get a definition somehow.
Mr. O'Br-n. Continue to pose as the "Martyr of Tullamore." Meantime, endeavour to get supplied with still more fashionable clothes. Why not a cheque suit, from America?
Cardinal M-nn-ng. Do something of everything. Mem.—Buy new Filter.
The L-rd Ch-nc-ll-r. Must really show some reason for my being in this exalted position. Find comfortable quarters for a few of my nephews, cousins, and sons-in-law who are still among "the Unemployed."
The Right Hon. J-hn Br-ght, M.P. Mem.—J-hn Br-ght, Always right. Politeness costs nothing. Get someone to give me a short manual of this almost-lost art, like prize-fighting. The latter being revived. Practise both.
Mr. C. V-ll-rs St-nf-rd. Inaugurate my Professorship in style. Get to work, and show 'em I'm the best man to turn out a genuinely successful first-class English Opera.
Professor H-xl-y. Study Sp-rg-n's Sermons for jokes and style, and read some theology, with a view to carrying out the great object of my life—smashing W. S. L-lly.
Mr. W. S. L-lly. Write more Chapters of History. Devote five minutes, one day when I have the leisure, to smashing H-xl-y.
Mr. Justice St-ph-n. Read up everything. After doing this, at last give my attention to the study of law. Mem.—Who was "The Master of the Sentences?" Must get his work, and revise some of my own.
Sir F. L-ght-n, P.R.A. Commence getting up Academy Speech for opening day. Mem.—Read Lemprière's Classical Dictionary for subject for big R.A. picture.