un petit peu--c'est beaucoup plus facile!

_Alma_. Snay pas facile quand vous avez les skates toutes sur un
côté--comme _moi_, Ma'amzell!

_F.M._ Ne repondy à Ma'amzell, ALMA, and watch ELLA!

_Ella_. Regardez-moi, ALMA. Je puis voler vîte--oh, mais vîte ... oh,
I _have_ hurt myself so!

_Alma_ (_with sisterly sympathy_). _That's_ what comes of trying to
show _off_, ELLA, darling! [_ELLA is helped to the bank._

_A Paternal Skate-Fastener_. 'Ere you are, Missie--set down on this
'ere cheer--and you, too, my little dear--lor, _they_ won't do them
cheers no 'arm, Mum, bless their little 'arts! Lemme tyke yer little
skites orf, my pooties. _I'll_ be keerful, Mum--got childring o' my
own at 'ome--the moral o' _your_ two, Mum!

_The F.M._ (_to Governess_). Sayt un homme avec un bong ker.
Avez-vous--er--des cuivres, Ma'amzell?

_The P.S._ (_disgustedly_). Wot?--on'y two bloomin' browns fur tykin'
the skites orf them two kids' trotters! I want a shellin' orf o'
you fur that job, _I_ do ... "Not another penny"? Well, if you do
everythink as cheap as you do yer skiting, you orter be puttin' money
by, _you_ ought! That's right, tyke them snivellin' kids 'ome--blast
me if ever I--&c, &c, &c.

[_Exit party, pursued by powerful metaphors._