Yours, spiritedly, HAMPSTEAD HEATHEN.

* * * * *

"HARD TO BEER!"

(_ADVANCE-SHEET FROM A PROJECTED ANTI-BACCHANALIAN TRAGI-FARCE, TO BE
CALLED "BY ORDER OF THE KAISER."_)

SCENE--_A Market Place in Berlin._ German Students
_carousing._ Emissary of the Emperor _seated at table apart
watching them. Apprehensive_ Waiters _nervously supplying the
wants of their Customers._

_First German Student_. Another flagon of beer, Kellner!

_Waiter_. Here, Mein Herr! (_Brings glass and, as he places it on the
table, whispers aside._) Oh, beware, my good Lord--this is your second
glass.

_First Ger. Stu._ (_with a laugh_). I know what I am about! And now,
my friends, I give you a toast--The Liberty of the Fatherland!

_Chorus of Students_. The Liberty of the Fatherland! [_They all
drink._

_Em. of the Emp._ (_apart_). Ha!

[_He makes an entry in his note-book._