Little AH SID Was a pig-headed kid (As well as pig-tailed). Could he guess What _kind_ of a fly Was buzz-wuzzing hard by, Till he grabbed him--with stinging success. "_Kiya, kyipye!_" Yelled AH SID, as that bee Stung him hard in a sensitive spot. "_Kiya yukakan!_ Hang um Japanese man, Um buttlefly velly much hot!" _Chorus._ "_Kiya, kiya, kyipye yukakan! Kiya, kiya, yukakan!_" Howled hopping AH SID, "Um hurt me, um did, Um buttlefly bites--in Japan!!!" * * * * * MODERN MANGERS.--Nearly all hotel advertisements prominently announce as among the principal attractions of each establishment "_separate tables_." It looks as if the "all-together-_table-d'hôte_-system" had failed by reason of "incompatibility of temper." Hence the divorce _a mensâ_. The long table with all the noses in a row down in the feeding-trough is by this time a remnant of barbarism. Yet the "boxes" common to the old eating-houses, such for example, as may still be seen in some parts of London both east and west, were "pernicious snug" and sufficiently private, too, for business conversation and confidential communications. * * * * * SERIOUS, VERY! LATEST FROM CHINA.--The Emperor has been consulting his physician, who, after careful diagnosis, has pronounced "TUNG in bad condition, and LUNG queer." * * * * * LYRE AND LANCET. (_A Story in Scenes._) PART XVI.--AN INTELLECTUAL PRIVILEGE. SCENE XXV.--_The Chinese Drawing Room._ TIME--_About_ 9.45 P.M. _Mrs. Earwaker._ Yes, dear Lady LULLINGTON, I've always insisted on each of my girls adopting a distinct line of her own, and the result has been _most_ satisfactory. LOUISA, my eldest, is literary; she had a little story accepted not long ago by _The Milky Way_; then MARIA is musical; practises regularly three hours every day on her violin. FANNY has become quite an expert in photography--kodaked her father the other day in the act of trying a difficult stroke at billiards; a back view--but _so_ clever and characteristic! _Lady Lullington (absently)._ A back view? How _nice_! _Mrs. Earw._ He was the only one of the family who didn't recognise it at once. Then my youngest, CAROLINE--well, I must say that for a long time I was quite in despair about CAROLINE. It really looked as if there was no single thing that she had the slightest bent or inclination for. So at last I thought she had better take up Religion, and make _that_ her speciality. _Lady Lull. (languidly)._ Religion! How _very_ nice! _Mrs. Earw._ Well, I got her a _Christian Year_ and a covered basket, and quantities of tracts, and so on; but, somehow, she didn't seem to get _on_ with it. So I let her give it up; and now she's gone in for poker-etching instead.