FIFTH BOY. If 'ee doan't let go o' me, I'll job th' helliphant's ribs, and make 'un gallop, I will, so _now_, Jimmy Passons! IN FRONT OF THE LIONS' DEN DURING PERFORMANCE. VARIOUS SPEAKERS. Wheer be pushin' to? Car that manners screouging like that!... I cann't see nawthen, _I_ cann't wi' all they 'ats in front.... What be gooin' arn, do 'ee know?... A wumman gooin' in along 'o they lions and tigerses? Naw, ye niver mane it!... Bain't she a leatherin' of 'un too!... Now she be a kissin' of 'un--maakin' it oop loike.... John, you can see better nor me--what be she oop to now?... Puttin' 'er 'ed inside o' th' lion's? Aw, dear me, now--_there_'s a thing to be doin' of! Well, I'd ruther it was 'er nor me, I know _that_.... They wun't do 'er naw 'arm, so long's she kips 'er heye on 'em.... What do 'ee taak so voolish vor? How's th' wumman to kip 'er heye on 'em, with 'er 'ed down wan on 'em's throat, eh?... Gracious alive! if iver I did!... Oh, I do 'ope she bain't gooin' to let off naw fire-arms, I be moor fear'd o' pistols nor any tigers.... Theer, she's out now! She be bold fur a female, bain't her?... She niver maade 'em joomp through naw bla-azin' 'oops, though.... What carl would she hev fur doin' that? Well, they've a drared 'er doin' of it houtside', that's arl I know.... An' they've a drared Hadam outside a naamin' of th' hanimals--but ye didn't expect to see _that_ doon inside', did 'ee?... Bob, do 'ee look at old Muster Manders ovver theer by th' hellyphant. He's a maakin' of 'isself that familiar--putting biskuts 'tween his lips and lettin' th' hellyphant take 'em out wi's troonk!... _I_ see un--let un aloan, th' hold doitler, happen he thinks he's a feedin' his canary bird! At the Regent Street Tussaud's. _Before the effigy of Dr. Koch, who is represented in the act of examining a test-tube with the expression of bland blamelessness peculiar to Wax Models._ WELL-INFORMED VISITOR. That's Dr. Koch, making his great discovery! UNSCIENTIFIC V. What did _he_ discover? WELL-INF. V. Why, the Consumption Bacillus. He's got it in that bottle he's holding up. UNSC. V. And what's the good of it, now he _has_ discovered it? WELL-INF. V. Good? Why, it's the thing that causes _consumption_, you know! UNSC. V. Then it's a pity he didn't leave it alone! _Before a Scene representing "The Home Life at Sandringham."_ FIRST OLD LADY (_with Catalogue_). It says here that "the note the page is handing _may_ have come from Sir Dighton Probyn, the Comptroller of the Royal Household." Fancy _that_! SECOND OLD LADY. He's brought it in in his fingers. Now _that's_ a thing I never allow in _my_ house. I always tell Sarah to bring all letters, and even circulars, in on a tray! _Before a Scene representing the late Fred Archer, on a rather quaint quadruped, on Ascot Racecourse._ A SPORTSMAN. H'm--Archer, eh? Shouldn't have backed his mount in _that_ race! _Before "The Library at Hawarden."_