Punch . f satisfied). Ah! I thought he wasnt a whatyou-maycallem in this<tioie. [He means a Cavalier in the reign of Charles the Second. Vague Person (after looking at five or six pictures, suddenly). Who wasKilligrew ? [ Vague Eriend looks to Other Vague Person/or information. Other Vague Person (who thinks he really ought to know who Killi-grewwas without looking at his catalogue). Killigrew? he was a wit—(Pauses, and thinks what the dickens else Killigrew was)—yes, hewas a wit— (Pauses again, but cant think of anything else)—yes, thatsall. (Adding, as if he was going to correct any mista
Punch . f satisfied). Ah! I thought he wasnt a whatyou-maycallem in this<tioie. [He means a Cavalier in the reign of Charles the Second. Vague Person (after looking at five or six pictures, suddenly). Who wasKilligrew ? [ Vague Eriend looks to Other Vague Person/or information. Other Vague Person (who thinks he really ought to know who Killi-grewwas without looking at his catalogue). Killigrew? he was a wit—(Pauses, and thinks what the dickens else Killigrew was)—yes, hewas a wit— (Pauses again, but cant think of anything else)—yes, thatsall. (Adding, as if he was going to correct any mistake there might beabout Killigrew in the catalogue.) Ill see what the Catalogue says. OUTSIDE THE GALLERY (Any day afterwards). Sleepy Person (who was awoke by their closing the Exhibition). Oh!(to a lady) you should go to see the Portraits, its so interesting. Vague Persons Opinion. Ob, you should go! There are all the pic-tures of Thingummy, and Whathisname, and Charles, and the whole lot of OLIVES. Erom some cause—probably an irritating east wind—there is justnow a great, we might say an alarming scarcity of this wholesome seems to have relinquished altogether its cultivation, her specu-lative genius hovering over pickles, with her arms ready at a momentswarning to plunge into family jars. Olive oil is largely employed inErench cookery, the chefde cuisine always having a flaskin hand whileaccelerating or retarding, at his own convenience, a variety of German cousins are very uncomfortable, cracking hard nuts overthe good Rhine wine instead of chewing an olive. In merry Englandwe have a company (limited) whose business consists entirely of ex-pressing from Olives their essential oil, and who have long been desirousto take the War Office as a warehouse for their goods. Some yearsago this enterprising company sent their travellers to Russia withsamples, but that frigid nation declined to exchange their ursine unctionfor a mollifying fluid.
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