A Protracted Session

It was in the opera house. The two gentle n were frotu the country. After the curtain feil on the lirst act, one of (hem, who had been reading the programme, lid in an excited uianncr: " It's an infernal swindle, ju.-t got up to take in strangors." " What's a .swindle?" " Uere it says the next act ia two years later. J wonder if they thitik we are going to stay herc, at two dollars a day, for two years, just tosee thii thing out?" Tliey went out and saw the ticketiuan ali mt it. l'raise no íuaa too liberally befort' bis back ; theorie savors of flattery, and the other of inalice- and both are reprehensible; the true way to advance another's virtue is to follow it ; and the best means to erv down another's vico is to decline it.