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 PARADISE FOUND 3

''C.F.I. is dusting John Bull. F.B.O. leaving the group of St. George and the Dragon, goes towards the Venus.''

C.F.I. You leave er alone. I've told you I won't ave you dust er. It ain't respectable.

F.B.O. Garn ! You talk as if we was living in them bad old Capiterlist days. Don't you know that respectability's been abolished ? And she was one of them what elped to do it.

C.F.I. Ho, yus ! I shouldn't wonder if she ad er reasons, that was ow she wore er clothes.

F.B.O. You oughter be ashamed, talkin like that. You know as well as I do it wasn't er fault. It was the fashion in that there Twentieth Century. That's ow they went to their dinner parties and dances. Low-necked dresses, they called em.

C.F.I. I dessay ! If they called all that neck, I wonder what they called waist ? I don't care ; what I say is that it was all very well for them Primrose Dames to go about like that, but a Suffragette ought to ave dressed erself decent. Why she asn't even a necklace !

F.B.O. An ow do you know that she didn't dress like that on principle ? She may ave bin a Dress Reformer like im. ( Points to the Highlander.) E ain't got no trousers on.

C.F.I. Ah, but we knows all about im. E was a Labour Member, e was, and e couldn't afford anything more than that.

F.B.O. That's all you know about it. E was the founder of the Boy Scouts, and that was is uniform.