as I was leaving the room I observed that the weather had become very sultry and I feared we should have a storm. “Ah, yes,” was the reply, “I expect we shall soon _see_ the thunder and _hear_ the lightning!” How delightful a perversion of words! I left the old gentleman chuckling immoderately at his little joke. MAX BEERBOHM. * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: ――A facsimile of author’s manuscript precedes the text content. ――Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). ――Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected. ――Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. ――Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.