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[Illustration: TRUE POLITENESS.
_Party in Check Cap._ "WILL YOU HAVE MY PLACE, SIR?"]
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"Three swift fierce rounds between Beckett and Wells and the
18,000 spectators at Olympia last night witnessed the close of
yet another great ring drama."--_Daily Chronicle._
"Beckett ... bowed more by instinct than of set purpose to the
shouting, over-wrought people who from the floor of Olympia
shot up to the ceiling."--_Daily Telegraph._
We had no idea until we read these paragraphs that the spectators took
such an active part in the proceedings.
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[Illustration: _House-hunter (after another fruitless day)._ "WHAT
ABOUT TAKING THIS? WE COULD AT LEAST HANG OUR PICTURES."]
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