being, Snobs.

1. The keeper--the least Snob of all, because he is discharging his
daily duty; but he appears here as a Snob, that is to say, in a position
of debasement before another human being (the Prince), with whom he
is allowed to communicate through another party. A free Portuguese
gamekeeper, who professes himself to be unworthy to communicate directly
with any person, confesses himself to be a Snob.

2. The nobleman in waiting is a Snob. If it degrades the Prince to
receive the gun from the gamekeeper, it is degrading to the nobleman in
waiting to execute that service. He acts as a Snob towards the keeper,
whom he keeps from communication with the Prince--a Snob to the Prince,
to whom he pays a degrading homage.

3. The King-Consort of Portugal is a Snob for insulting fellow-men in
this way. There's no harm in his accepting the services of the keeper
directly; but indirectly he insults the service performed, and the
servants who perform it; and therefore, I say, respectfully, is a most
undoubted, though royal Snob.

And then you read in the DIARIO DO GOBERNO--'Yesterday his Majesty the
King took the diversion of shooting the woods off Cintra, attended by
Colonel the honourable Whiskerando Sombrero. His Majesty returned to the
Necessidades to lunch, at,' &c. &c..

Oh! that COURT CIRCULAR! once more, I exclaim.

Down with the COURT CIRCULAR--that engine and propagator of
Snobbishness! I promise to subscribe for a year to any daily paper that