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ght-- Flo Good gracious! what a number of draughts. You have almost a game of draughts. Dun Ha! ha! ha! Flo What's the matter? Dun That wath a joke, that wath. Flo Where's the joke? [Dundreary screams and turns to Mrs. M.] Mrs M No. Dun She don't see it. Don't you see--a game of drafts--pieces of wound wood on square pieces of leather. That's the idea. Now, I want to put your brains to the test. I want to ask you a whime. Flo A whime, what's that? Dun A whime is a widdle, you know. Flo A widdle! Dun Yeth; one of those things, like--why is so and so or somebody like somebody else. Flo Oh, I see, you mean a conundrum. Dun Yeth, a drum, that's the idea. What is it gives a cold in the head, cures a cold, pays the doctor's bill and makes the home-guard look for substitutes? [Florence repeats it.] Yeth, do you give it up? Flo Yes. Dun Well, I'll tell you--a draught. Now I've got a better one that that: When is a dog's tail not a dog's tail? [Florence repeats. During this Florence, Mrs. M. and Dundreary are down stage.] Flo Yes, and willingly. Dun When it's a cart. [They look at him enquiringly.] Flo Why, what in earth has a dog's tail to do with a cart? Dun When it moves about, you know. A horse makes a cart move, so does a dog make his tail move. Flo Oh, I see what you mean--when it's a wagon. [Wags the letter in her hand.] Dun Well, a wagon and a cart are the same thing, ain't they! That's the idea--it's the same thing. Flo They are not the same. In the case of your conundrum there's a very great difference. Dun Now I've got another. Why does a dog waggle his tail? Flo Upon my word, I never inquired. Dun Because the tail can't waggle the dog. Ha! Ha! Flo Ha! ha! Is that your own, Dundreary? Dun Now I've got one, and this one is original. Flo No, no, don't spoil the last one. Dun Yeth; but this is extremely interesting. Mrs M Do you think so, Lord Dundreary? Dun Yeth. Miss Georgina likes me to tell her my jokes. Bye-the-bye, talking of that lonely sufferer, isn't she an interesting invalid? They do say that's what's the matter with me. I'm an interesting invalid. Flo Oh, that accounts for what I have heard so many young ladies say--Florence, dear, don't you think Lord Dundreary's extremely interesting? I never knew what they meant before. Dun Yeth, the doctor recommends me to drink donkey's milk. Flo [Hiding laugh.] Oh, what a clever man he must
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