Frivolities, Especially Addressed to Those Who Are Tired of Being Serious

Excerpt: ''I come here in answer to an advertisement, at great personal inconvenience to myself, and I am shown into a room with a number of most extraordinary characters; and one person, who, I am sure, was the worse for drink, asks me the most impertinent questions, and when I appeal for protection to another individual, he tells me that he has enough to do in attending to his own business without interfering with other people''s, and I have positively to ring the bell twice before I can receive any proper attention.'' ...''As for me, I''m not going through the farce of describing the purse I lost, because I know very well you haven''t got it; but I''ll tell you this--I''ve come all the way from Hackney, and I''ve wasted a day, and I don''t mean to leave this house till you''ve paid me my expenses. ...He wanted me to pin one number to the lot of them; and as I was a-arguing with him, and tryin'' to understand how he made out as I could do that, seeing as how the pins was little ones, and the numbers not large ones neither, a lot of other gents came up, and this here young gent he got quite red in the face, and he snatched a number out of my hand and he walked off, and he left me staring.''