What fault, if any, do you find with my putting the skates on the young ladies, and carryin' the campstool for them ?" "If you are a gentleman," said Miss Wilson, reddening, "your conduct in persisting in these antics in my presence is insulting to me.

Extremely so." "Miss Wilson," he replied, unruffled, "if you insist on Smilash, you shall have Smilash; I take an insane pleasure in personating him.

If you want Sidney--my real Christian name--you can command him.

But allow me to say that you must have either one or the other.

If you become frank with me, I will understand that you are addressing Sidney.