_Miss Violet_ (_her first ball, very bashful_). "WELL--REALLY--SIR
BURLEIGH--IF YOU INSIST--I SHOULD SAY"--(_hesitating_)--"DECIDEDLY
_ROUND_!"]

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'ARRY EXAMINED.

_Q._ What is meant by "Higher Education?"

_'Arry_. Getting a Tutor at so much a week. That's the way _I_ should
'ire education--if I wanted it.

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A DEFINITION.--"A pun on a word is a _new sense_."--Dr. JOHNSON,
Junior.

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THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.

NO. XXII.

SCENE--_The Campo S.S. Giovanni e Paolo. Afternoon. CULCHARD
is leaning against the pedestal of the Colleoni Statue_.

_Podbury_ (_who has just come out of S. Giovanni, recognising
CULCHARD_). Hullo! _alone_, eh? Thought you were with Miss TROTTER?