_Host._ No, please don't sit there.
_1st Guest._ Oh yes, I much prefer it.
_2nd Guest._ Do let me.
_Host._ I can't have you sitting there.
_1st Guest._ I assure you I like being back to the driver.
_Host._ No, if anyone sits there, naturally it must be me.
_2nd Guest._ Do let me.
_1st Guest._ Not at all.
_2nd Guest._ I assure you I prefer it too.
_Host._ No, sit here. When you're both comfortably settled, I'll get in.
_1st Guest._ Oh no, please. I'm sure you never sit there. I hate to
take away your own place.
_2nd Guest._ Do let me.
_Host._ I insist.
_1st Guest._ Please don't say any more about it. See, I'm in now and
quite comfy.
_Host._ It's very wrong of you to be there.
_2nd Guest._ Do let me.
_Host._ Can't I persuade you to change?
_1st Guest._ No.
_2nd Guest._ Do let me.
_Host._ Well, it's very wrong. I know that.
_1st Guest_. Please let us get on now. I never was more comfy in my
life.
_Host._ You're sure?
_2nd Guest._ Do let me.
_Host._ But it's most unsatisfactory.
_1st Guest._ Not at all.
_Host._ Then you're sure you're all right?
_1st Guest._ Absolutely. I love it here.
_Host._ Very well then. (_Sighs._)
_2nd Guest._ Do let me.
_1st Guest._ No, we're all fixed now.
_Host._ All right. (_To chauffeur_) Let her go! (_To 1st Guest_) It's a
great shame, though.
_1st Guest._ I love it.
_2nd Guest._ I do wish you had let me.
And that is what happens whenever three polite people are about to ride
in a motor-car.
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Shares.
"A purse, containing sum of money; owner can have some."--_Advt. in
"Portsmouth Evening News._"
And the finder may keep the rest for his trouble.
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_The Daily Chronicle_ (Kingston, Jamaica) says of the new Military
Decoration:--
"It is of silver, and bears the imperial crown on each arm and in the
centre the letters 'G.R.I.' (George, ex-Imperator)."
At least that's WILLIAM'S interpretation of it.
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