PAGE "What did 'e want to go and git the fair 'ump about?" 11 "What's she got hold of now?" 21 "You have lofty ambitions and the artistic temperament" 37 "They ain't on'y a lot o' sheep! I thought it was reciters, or somethink o' that" 55 "Mokestrians" 75 "Dear, dear! _not_ a county family!" 125 "Well, he's had a sharp lesson,--there's no denying that" 135 "None of your humour here, mind!" 155 "I cann't get nothen done to 'en till the weather's a bit more hopen like" 171 "They haven't the _patiensh_ for it" 183 "It must be a sort of animal, I suppose" 193 "I see _him_ standing on the very brink of the precipice" 209 "To-night is ours!" 225 "Why the blazes don't ye take it?" 239 "Thash where 'tis, yer come on me too late!" 251 "'Ere, Florrie, you ain't _croying_, are yer?" 271 [Illustration] DOING A CATHEDRAL. (A SKETCH FROM THE PROVINCES.) _The interior of Dulchester Cathedral._ TIME--_About 12.30. The March sunshine slants in pale shafts through the clerestory windows, leaving the aisles in shadow. From without, the cawing of rooks and shouts of children at play are faintly audible. By the West Door, a party of Intending Sightseers have collected, and the several groups, feeling that it would be a waste of time to observe anything in the building until officially instructed to do so, are engaged in eyeing one another with all the genial antipathy and suspicion of true-born Britons._ A Stodgy Sightseer (_to his friend_). Disgraceful, keeping us standing about like this! If I'd only known, I'd have told the head-waiter at the "Mitre" to keep back those chops till---- [_He breaks off abruptly, finding that the chops are reverberating from column to column with disproportionate solemnity; a white-haired and apple-faced verger rustles down from the choir and beckons the party forward benignantly, whereupon they advance with a secret satisfaction at the prospect of "getting the cathedral 'done' and having the rest of the day to themselves;" they are conducted to a desk and requested, as a preliminary, to put sixpence apiece in the Restoration Fund box and inscribe their names in a book._