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_Mrs. Jones._ And pray, Mr. Jones, what is the matter now?
_Jones._ I was only wondering, my dear, where you might have bought this
fish.
_Mrs. Jones._ At the fishmonger's. Where do you suppose I bought it?
_Jones._ Well, I thought that, _perhaps_, there might have been a
remnant sale at the Royal Aquarium!
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EXCUSE FOR DRINKING BEFORE DINNER.--To whet the appetite.
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[Illustration: _Voice from above._ "What are you doing down there,
Parkins?"
_Parkins._ "I'm jush--puttin' away the port, shir!"]
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[Illustration: _Commissionaire._ "Would you like a four-wheeler or a
'ansom sir?" _Convivial Party_ (_indistinctly_). "Ver' mush
oblige--but--reely don't think I _could_ take 'ny more!"]
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