(_By an Intelligent Schoolboy_)
That demons are much given to making bad puns, and have on their
visiting lists the most beautiful of the fairies.
That the attendants upon the demons (presumably their victims) spend
much of their time in break-downs.
That the chief amusement in Fairyland is to stand upon one toe for a
distressingly long time.
That the fairies, when they speak, don't seem to have more H.'s to their
tongues, than clothes to their backs.
That the fairies have particularly fair complexions, considering they
dance so much in the sunlight.
That the tight and scanty costume of the fairies is most insufficient
protection from the showers that must be required to produce the
gigantic and highly-coloured fairy _flora_.
That the chief fairy (to judge from her allusions to current events)
must take in the daily papers.
That harlequin is always shaking his bat, but nothing seems to come of
it, and that it is hard to say why he comes on or goes off, or, in
short, what he's at altogether.
That if clown and pantaloon want to catch columbine, it is hard to see
why they don't catch her.
That pantaloon must have been greatly neglected by his children to be
exposed without some filial protection to such ill-usage from clown.
That clown leads a reckless and abandoned life, between thefts,
butter-slides, hot pokers, nurse-maids, and murdered babies, and on the
whole is lucky to escape hanging.
That policemen are made to be chaffed, cuffed, chased, and knocked
head-over-heels.
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[Illustration: THE NEW PLAY
_Low Comedian._ "Have you seen the notice?"
_Tragedian._ "No; is it a good one?"
_Low Comedian._ "It's a fortnight's."]
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[Illustration: A quick movement with an obligato accompaniment.]
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[Illustration: TERRIFIC SITUATION!
Heroine of domestic drama pursued by the unprincipled villain is about
to cast herself headlong from a tremendous precipice!]
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