Part 4 (1/2)

RIDDLES BY A WRETCH.--_Q._ What is the difference between a surgeon and a wizard?

_A._ The one is a cupper and the other is a sorcerer.

_Q._ Why is America like the act of reflection?

_A._ Because it is a roomy-nation.

_Q._ Why is your pretty cousin like an alabaster vase?

_A._ Because she is an _objet de looks_.

_Q._ How is it that a man born in Truro can never be an Irishman?

_A._ Because he always is a true-Roman.

_Q._ Why is my game c.o.c.k like a bishop?

_A._ Because he has his crows here (_crozier_).

COUPLET BY A CYNIC

(_After reading certain Press Comments on the Picture Show_)

Philistine art may stand all critic shocks Whilst it gives private views--of pretty frocks!

[Ill.u.s.tration: RETALIATION.--

_Comic Man_ (_to unappreciated tenor, whose song has just been received in stony silence_). ”I say, you're not going to sing an encore, are you?”

_Unappreciated Tenor_ (_firmly_). ”Yes, I am. _Serve them right!_”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: AN INDUCEMENT.--

_Swedish Exercise Instructress._ ”Now, ladies, if you will only follow my directions carefully, it is quite possible that you may become even as I am!”]

[Ill.u.s.tration: MORE SWEDISH INSTRUCTION.--

_Instructress_ (_to exhausted cla.s.s, who have been hopping round room for some time_). ”Come! Come! That won't do at all. You _must_ look cheerful. Keep smiling--smiling all the time!”]