MR. PRATTLER (_before a portrait of Lady Hamilton by Romney_). There!
Isn't she too charming? I do call her a perfect _duck!_
MISS AMMERSON. Yes, you mustn't forget her when you bring those
biscuits.
AN AMURRCAN GIRL. Father, see up there; there's Byron. Did you erver see
such a purrfectly beautiful face?
HER FATHER (_solemnly_). He was a beautiful _Man_--a beautiful Poet.
THE A. G. I know--but the _expression_, it's real saint-like!
FATHER (_slowly_). Well, I guess if he'd had any different kind of
expression, he wouldn't have written the things he _did_ write, and
that's a fact!
A MORALISING OLD LADY (_at Case O_). No. 1260. "Ball of Worsted wound by
William Cowper, the poet, for Mrs. Unwin." No. 1261. "Netting done by
William Cowper, the poet." How very nice, and what a difference in the
habit of literary persons _nowadays_, my dear!