_) "Containing between ten and eleven thousand pins and
beads, and a hundred and ninety-eight pieces of coloured cloth!" Why,
the pins alone must ha' cost a deal of money.
_Second W._ Yes, it 'ud be a pity for it to go to somebody as 'ud want
to take 'em out.
_First W._ It ought to be bought up by Gover'ment, that it
ought--they're well able to afford it.
A select party of Philistines, comprising a young Man, apparently
in the Army, and his Mother and Sister, are examining Mr.
GILBERT'S Jubilee Trophy in a spirit of puzzled antipathy.
_The Mother_. Dear me, and _that_'s the Jubilee centrepiece, is it?
What a heavy-looking thing. I wonder what _that_ cost?
_Her Son_ (_gloomily_). Cost? Why, about two days' pay for every man
in the Service!
_His Mother_. Well, I call it a shame for the Army to be fleeced for
_that_ thing. Are those creatures intended for mermaids, with their
tails curled round that glass ball, I wonder? [She sniffs.
_Her Daughter_. I expect it will be crystal, Mother.
_Her Mother_. Very likely, my dear, but--glass or crystal--_I_ see no
sense in it!
_Daughter_.
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