_The Hon. Mrs. Snobbington (to fair stranger)._ "English people are so
unsociable, and never speak to each other without an introduction. I
always make a point of being friendly with people staying at the same
hotel. One need never know them afterwards!"]
[Illustration: "TIP" NOT GOOD ENOUGH
The Delamere-Browns, who have been spending their honeymoon trip
in France, have just taken their seats on the steamer, agreeably
conscious of smart clothes and general well-being, when to them enters
breathlessly, Françoise, the "bonne" from the hotel, holding on high a
very dirty comb with most of its teeth missing.
_Françoise (dashing forward with her sweetest smile)._ "Tiens!
J'arrive juste à point! Voilà un peigne que madame a laissé dans sa
chambre!"
[_Tableau!_
]
[Illustration: 'ARRY IN 'OLLAND
_'Arry._ "I say, Bill, ain't he a rum lookin' cove?"]
[Illustration: A BATH AT BOULOGNE
Appalling position of Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins, who had a jib horse when
the tide was coming in.]
[Illustration: "STRANGERS YET"
_First Compatriot_ (_in Belgian café_). "I beg your pardon, sirr. Are
ye an Irishman?"
_Second Compatriot._ "I am!"
[_Silence._
_First Compatriot._ "I'd as soon meet a crocodile as an Irishman
'foreign parts. I beg ye'll not address yer conversation to me,
sirr!!"]
[Illustration]