_Uncle Gab._ And when I take a fancy to a young fellow, my Lord, I don't allow any social prejudices to stand in the way. I should say just the same if you were a mere nobody. We ought to see _more_ of one another. I should esteem it a distinguished favour if you'd honour me and my wife by dropping in to a little dinner some evening; no ceremony; just a few quiet pleasant people like ourselves. We'll see if we can't fix a day with my wife. [_He steers him across to_ Mrs. GILWATTLE. _Lord Strath._ (_to himself_). Now, how the deuce am I going to get out of _this_? And what have they done with MARJORY? _Uncle Gab._ JOANNA, my love, I've been telling his Lordship here how delighted and honoured we should be to see him at dinner some---- [Mrs. GILWATTLE _rises slowly, bristling with indignation, and glares speechlessly at the unconscious_ Lord STRATHSPORRAN, _while_ Mrs. TIDMARSH _vainly attempts to appease her, as her husband and the other men enter. Tableau._ _End of Scene X._ * * * * * "At the Window." In dull days of sensational horrors, and wild would-be humorous hums, What delight to fly darkness, and watch the "Auld Licht," from "_A Window in Thrums_"! Let pessimists potter and pule, and let savages slaughter and harry; Give me _Hendry_, and _Tammas_, and _Jess_, and a smile, and a tear born of BARRIE. * * * * * "The French," says Mrs. R., "have been shown up in a very queer light by all these Panama candles." * * * * * THE HOUSE THAT BILL (SYKES) BURGLED. (Namely, that of Messrs. WALTER CROSS & CO., Jewellers, 8, Holywell Street, Strand, as narrated in the _Times_ of the 16th inst.) This is the House that BILL burgled. This is the window, plastered with brown-paper and treacle, and then broken, belonging to the House that BILL burgled. This is the rope-ladder, attached to the window, plastered with brown-paper and treacle, &c. This is the show-case, reached by way of the rope-ladder attached to the window, plastered with brown-paper and treacle, &c. This is the "burglar-alarm," lately connected with the show-case, reached by way of the rope-ladder, attached to the window, &c. This is the bell that belonged to the "burglar-alarm," lately connected with the show-case, &c. This is the wire that rang the bell, that belonged to the "burglar-alarm," lately connected with the show-case, &c. [Illustration] This is the telephone that communicated with Bloomsbury, set in motion by the bell, rung by the wire, &c. This is the dog who barked at the bell, agitated by the telephone that communicated with Bloomsbury, &c. This is the man unshaven, unshorn, aroused from his sleep in the early morn by the dog who barked at the bell, &c.