_Cookson Gaze, Q.C._ Because MARIA votes Eastbourne vulgar, and the
girls (sorry now I sent them to that finishing-school at Clapham)
laugh so consumedly whenever I open my mouth to address a native if we
go to Trouville or Dinard.
_C. Jumper_. Because the Governor thinks three days in the year enough
for anybody.
_Eastend Dr._ Because that fiver will just give little SALLY the
breath of sea-air she wants, and she'll never make a good cure unless
she has it.
_Reg. Rake_. Because wife says she shall certainly accompany me.
_Barmaid_. Because I've just been ill for a fortnight from overwork,
and the Company say they can't give any more leave.
_Eastend Clergyman_ (_of any church._) Because there are hundreds who
want it more than I do, and I must help them to get a change first.
_Major Hornblower_. Because MACCRACSHOTT (the only man who has asked
me) was in the smoking-room the night I was fool enough to tell that
Snipe and Rhinoceros Story of PEYTON's in the first person.
_Quiverful_. Because there's another pair.
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