_The R.L._ Won't match? I _see_. How clever! (_She arrives at a highly eccentric composition, and ventures upon an independent opinion._) Now I can't say I care for _that_--there's so very little done to it, and what there is is so glaring and _crude_, don't you think? I call it _stupid_. _The S.P._ I was just about to say that it is the cleverest thing in the Exhibition--from an artistic point of view. No special interest in it, but the scheme of colour very harmonious--and very decorative. _The R.L._ Oh, _isn't_ it? That's _just_ the right word for it--it is _so_ decorative! and I do like the scheme of colour. Yes, it's very clever. I quite feel _that_ about it. (_With a gush_.) It is _so_ nice looking at pictures with somebody who has exactly the same tastes as oneself. And I always _was_ fond of pastilles! _A Pavement Pastellist_ (_to a friend_). Well, JIM, I dunno what _you_ think, but I call it a shellin' clean chucked away, I do. I come in yere,--hearin' as all the subjicks was done in chorks, same as I do my own--I come in on the chance o' pickin' up a notion or two as might be useful to me in my perfession. But, Lor, they ain't got a ideer among 'em, that they ain't! They ain't took the measure of the popilar taste not by a nundred miles, they 'aven't. Why, I ain't seen a single thing as I'd reckincile it to my conscience to perduce before _my_ public--there ain't 'ardly a droring in the 'ole bloomin' show as I'd be seen settin' down beyind! Put down some of these 'ere Pastellers to do a mouse a nibbling at a candle, or a battle in the Soudang, or a rat snifin' at a smashed hegg, and you'd soon see _they_ was no good! Precious few coppers 'ud fall into _their_ 'ats, I'll go bail! [_Exit indignantly, as Scene closes._ * * * * * EXCELLENT EXAMPLE. In a recent trial for Breach of Promise, a letter was read from Defendant saying that "he must now get a monkey;" whereupon the "learned Under-Sheriff," as reported in the _Daily Telegraph_, exclaimed, "A Monkey! What the goodness does he mean?" Now, isn't that better than saying, "What the deuce?" Of course, no doubt the learned Under-Sheriff is suficiently learned to remember the old rhyme-- "There was an old man of Domingo Who'd a habit of swearing, 'By Jingo!' But a friend having come Who suggested 'By Gum!' He preferred it at once to 'By Jingo!'" The goodness of the learned Under-Sheriff is worthy of all praise, and of general imitation. * * * * *