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Ship's concerts are given in aid of the seamen's orphans and s, and, after one has been present at a few of the orphan or ould rather jog along and take a chance of starvation than be the innocent cause of such things They open with a long speech fro, as a rule, that it is only the thought of what is going to happen afterwards that enables the audience to bear it with fortitude This done, the ains

It was not till after the all too brief intermission for rest and recuperation that the newly fornett was scheduled to appear Previous to this there had been dark deeds done in the quiet saloon The lecturer on deep-sea fish had fulfilled his threat and spoken at great length on a subject which, treated by a master of oratory, would have palled on the audience after ten or fifteen minutes; and at the end of fifteen ot past the haddocks and was feeling his way tentatively through the shri and there was an uneasy doubt as to whether it was not going to be sung again after the interval--the latest ruers had proved ada out on the lines she had originally chosen if they put her in irons

A young ratitude of the audience that it was over for a desire for more, had followed it with 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy' His sister--these things run in fa 'My Little Gray Ho the 'Rosary,' and, with the same obtuseness which characterised her brother, had cos The audience was now exarammes in the interval of silence in order to ascertain the duration of the sentence still re: 7 A Little ImitationS Marlowe All over the saloon you could see fair wo in their seats Imitation! The word, as Keats would have said, was like a knell! Many of these people were old travellers, and their otten wounds, to occasions when perfors of Dickens' characters or, with the assistance of a few hats and a little false hair, had endeavored to portray Napoleon, Bismarck, Shakespeare and others of the fara to indicate the nature or scope of the imitation which this S Marlowe proposed to inflict upon them They could only sit and wait and hope that it would be short