Most
interesting. Wonder how they found room for it! Have you seen it?
_Brown_. Well, no. Fact is I have been reading about Argentina. Very
exhaustive article this, and on a matter of serious moment. I hold
some shares as a trustee. Seems that they will all come right in the
end. Would you like to see it?
_Smith_. When I have time to read it. But, to tell the truth, it takes
me a good hour to get through the City Intelligence. And the racing,
too, that always interests me; but I don't think it is so exciting as
the Stock Exchange.
_Brown_. No more do I. By the way, is there anything good in the
correspondence line in your paper?
_Smith_. The usual sensational recess subjects. Some of the letters
are too good for the general public; they must have been written in
the office.
_Brown_. I daresay. And perhaps these sketches of places away from
Town are also written in London?
_Smith_. Not a bit of it! I happen to know that the papers spend
thousands and thousands upon obtaining information in every quarter of
the globe. Bogus articles are things of the past.
_Brown_. Only fancy! And all this expense for nothing in the recess!
When no one reads the papers!
_Smith_. Yes, and when there's nothing in them!
[_They resume perusal of their papers until interrupted by a
tunnel. Curtain._
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THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
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Oh, Sir, I read the papers every day,
To amuse myself and pass the time away;
But they've got so hard to follow that they simply beat me hollow
With the learning and the culture they display;
And they wouldn't be so hard if those good people down at Cardiff
Would but be a shade more careful what they say.
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