An old play-goer who will insist "we haven't a single actor left," and then tells you, "You should have seen Dicky Suett."
"A man who has seen better days," and will recollect the time he had "thirteen different sorts of wine on his table, and kept his mare and French cook, but no one cares that for him now"—the that being a snap of the fingers.
AN EXTENSIVE ORDER.
Spacious Gentleman.—"Will you have the kindness, young man, to measure me for a pair of those at 12s.?">[
THE BRIDGE OF SIZE.
WHAT DO ALL ENGLISHMEN TAKE OFF THEIR
HATS TO?[[8]]
Who is it that gets the most salutes in England? We do not mean the powder which is thundered into the Queen's ears wherever she goes, but the quiet salute which a person makes by taking his hat off.
Now, every Englishman dislikes taking his hat off. It is a trouble, and no genuine John Bull likes more trouble than he can help. It must be something, then, of very great importance—of general love and feeling—a chord that strikes all Englishmen's hearts—that makes everybody, without a single exception, take his hat off to it?