[Illustration: I.--The Sex pays the Penalty.
_Algernon (suddenly to his aunt and cousin)._ "Look here, I hope you
both understand that when we get to the Academy I don't know you. I
can't be seen there with women after this Sargent business!"]
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"An extraordinary amount of destruction and annoyance is
annually perpetrated by the somewhat unsociable creatures known
as wasps."--_Amateur Gardening._
They are still more annoying when they are sociable.
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"Masterman jumped out of the conveyance, which also contained
several ladies, and, overtaking the animals, succeeded in
turning them into a telegraph pole."
_Lincolnshire Echo._
This trick is a favourite one with all good conjurers, but rarely comes
in so opportunely. The second part of it--in which the telegraph pole is
turned into a couple of rabbits--is rather in the nature of an
anti-climax.
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_The Pall Mall Gazette_ on John Burns:--
"_Johannes locutur est; res finite est._ Or so we hope."
We, too, always hoped at school, and then wished afterwards we had
looked it up in our Latin Grammar.
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