_Culch._ Just so. Do you know, PODBURY, I almost think I'll go down and find her. I--I'm curious to hear what her impressions of a place like this are. Such a scene, you know,--so full of associations with--er--the splendours and cruelties of a corrupt past--must produce a powerful effect upon the fresh untutored mind of an American girl, eh? _Miss T.'s voice_ (_distinctly from arena_). I'd like ever so much to see Buffalo BILL run his Show in here--he'd just make this old circus hum! _Miss P.'s voice_ (_indistinctly from topmost tier_). Almost fancy it all.... Senators--_equites--populus--pullati_... yellow sunlight striking down through _vellarium_ ... crimsoned sand ... _mirmillo_ fleeing before _secutor_ ... DIOCLETIAN himself, perhaps, lolling over there on _cubiculum_ ... &c., &c., &c. _Culch._ The place appears to excite Miss PRENDERGAST's enthusiasm, at all events! [_Sighs._ _Podb._ Rath-er! But then she's no end of a classical swell, you know! [_Sighs._ _Culch._ (_putting his arm through PODBURY's._) Ah, well, my dear PODBURY, one mustn't expect too much, must one?) _Podb._ I _don't_, old chap--only I'm afraid _she_ does. Suppose we toddle back to the hotel, eh? Getting near _table d'hôte_ time. [_They go out arm-in-arm._ * * * * * 'ARRY IN ROME AND LONDON. A kind Correspondent calls _Mr. Punch's_ attention to the fact that 'ARRY the Ubiquitous crops up even in the Classics, as ARRIUS, in fact, in _Carmen_ lxxxiv. of CATULLUS. How proud 'ARRY will be to hear of his classical prototype! Our Correspondent "dropping into verse," exclaims:-- [Illustration: 'Arry the Classic in his Swell Toga-ry] Yes! Your Cockney is eternal; ARRIUS speaks in 'ARRY still: Vaunts 'is "hincome" by paternal "Hartful" tricks hup 'Olborn 'Ill. How well he is justified may be seen by a glance at the text of CATULLUS:-- DE ARRIO. "C_h_ommoda" dicebat, si quando commoda vellet Dicere, et "_h_insidias" ARRIUS insidias: Et tum miritice sperabat se esse locutum. Cum, quantum poterat, dixerat "_h_insidias." Credo, sic mater, sic Liber avunculus ejus, Sic maternus avus dixerit, atque avia. CATULLUS, _Carmen_ lxxxiv. Which--for the benefit of 'ARRY himself, who is not perhaps familiar with the "Lingo Roruano"--though he may know something of a "Romano" dear to certain young sportsmen, though not dearer to them than other caterers,--may thus be _very_ freely adapted:-- 'ARRY to _H_oxford gives the aspirate still He cruelly denies to 'Ighgate 'Ill; Yet deems in diction he can ape the "Swell," And "git the 'ang of it" exceeding well. Doubtless his sire, the 'atter, and his mother, The hupper 'ousemaid, so addressed each other; For spite of all that wrangling Board Schools teach, There seems heredity in Cockney speech. * * * * *