ACRES. Odds, thunderings and pealings, of course they do! and the third fiddler, little Tweaks, of the county town, goes into fits. Ho, ho, ho, I can't bear it (_mimicking_); take me out! Ha, ha, ha! O what a one she is! She'll be the death of me. Ha, ha, ha, ha! _That's_ very like her! FALKLAND. Damnation! Heartless Mary! (_Rushes out._) Scene opens, and discloses coals of fire, heaped up into form of letters, representing the following inscription: When the praise thou meetest To thine ear is sweetest, O then REMEMBER JOE! (_Curtain falls._) [Sidenote: M. de Cerjat.] TAVISTOCK HOUSE, _Monday, Jan. 16th, 1854._ MY DEAR CERJAT, Guilty. The accused pleads guilty, but throws himself upon the mercy of the court. He humbly represents that his usual hour for getting up, in the course of his travels, was three o'clock in the morning, and his usual hour for going to bed, nine or ten the next night. That the places in which he chiefly deviated from these rules of hardship, were Rome and Venice; and that at those cities of fame he shut himself up in solitude, and wrote Christmas papers for the incomparable publication known as "Household Words." That his correspondence at all times, arising out of the business of the said "Household Words" alone, was very heavy. That his offence, though undoubtedly committed, was unavoidable, and that a nominal punishment will meet the justice of the case.