_) An' I want heach man
and boy of you to 'member my words, and _hact_ upon them when the time
comes!
[_Here he staggers off with a proud and exalted air, to the
immense relief of his hearer._
_A Professional Pietist_ (_with a modest working capital of one hymn
and a nasal drone_). "My richest gynes" ... (_To Charitable Passer_. A
copper, Sir? bless your kind 'art!) "I cayount" ... (_Examining it._
A bloomin' French 'ap'ny!) ... "but loss; And pour contemp'" ... (Call
yerself a Christian gen'lman, yer--&c.) ... "on a--a--ll my proide!"
(_Here the Reader will probably have had enough of it._)
* * * * *
A REAL TREAT.--_Advice to Covent-gardeners_.--If _Carmen_ is to be
done again this season with the same cast as it had on Saturday last,
no one who cares for an exceptionally first-rate performance should
miss this opera-tunity. There is no better representative of _Carmen_
than Mlle. ZELIE DE LUSSAN,--how can there be, since the Spanish
Gipsy heroine of the plot is herself a _Loose 'un_? Madame MELBA
was charming as _Mickie Ella_, the Irish girl in Spain.
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