A person's indignation on being told "Queen Anne's dead."

Meeting a creditor, and being obliged to sit opposite to him "the whole

way" in an omnibus.

Being asked, in a drawing-room of ladies, to take a few tickets in a

raffle—"the ticket only a guinea!"

Breaking your strap in the _pas seul_ in _La Pastorale_.

The wine at a public dinner.