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40 to work, just about to pay, just about to repent, just about to wash their necks—but they were fond of saying 'Well! I never did'—and they never did. Their names? Let's see. There was 'Ugo—who never went himself, and Alfred—who was really 'alfblack. Their children were Percy Vere—who never did so; Og—who hadn't a single H to his name because he didn't want to be a Pig; Edward—so called because his beer always went that way. "

"What did they eat—apart from eggs?" inquired the President.

"Well, they imbibed virtue and assimilated facts. They chewed the cud of bitter reflection and inwardly digested exhortations and were " "Fed up, I should think," interrupted Boodle. "You're off colour to-day, Buster. Sing us something."

And lifting up his voice. Buster sang:—

And was turned out of the Club forthwith.