Let's hear!" MR.

CAXTON (reciting) .-- "Telle est du Ciel la loi severe Qu'il faut qu'un enfant ait un pere; On dit meme quelquefois Tel enfant en a jusqu'a trois." ["That each child has a father Is Nature's decree; But, to judge by a rumour, Some children have three."] CAPTAIN ROLAND (greatly disgusted).--"Conde write such stuff!--I don't believe it." PISISTRATUS.--"I do, and accept the quotations; you and Roland shall be joint fathers to my child as well as myself.
"'Tel enfant en a jusqu'a trois.'" MR.

CAXTON (solemnly).--"I refuse the proffered paternity; but so far as administering a little wholesome castigation now and then, I have no objection to join in the discharge of a father's duty." PISISTRATUS.--"Agreed.

Have you anything to say against the infant hitherto ?" MR.

CAXTON.--"He is in long clothes at present; let us wait till he can walk." BLANCHE.--"But pray whom do you mean for a hero?
And is Miss Jemima your heroine ?" CAPTAIN ROLAND.--"There is some mystery about the--" PISISTRATUS (hastily).-"Hush, Uncle: no letting the cat out of the bag yet.