ers why Mr. Higgins rings for water,
when she recollects filling the ewer full the night previous. Next day
Mr. Higgins examines his operatic accounts, and finds them to stand
thus:

To one pair kid gloves, $1.00
" opera ticket, (secured seat,) 1.50
" supper, 3.00
" cab-hire, 1.00
-----
Total, 6.50

At that moment his land-lady sends in the bill for lodging, which,
by-the-by, she always seems to do when he is in one of his repentant
moods, and Mr. Higgins expresses a kind wish that all Italians were in a
climate somewhat warmer than that of the south of Europe.

The Smiths do not feel any inconvenience, physical or pecuniary, from
their visit to the opera, and _petit souper_ afterwards. "When one has
money," says Mrs. Smith, in a very oracular tone, "what is the use of
it, except to let people know that one has got it!" Immediately after
this expression of her sentiments in regard to filthy lucre, Mrs. Smith
tells the servant not to give a shilling to the whimpering little boy
who has been sweeping the snow off the pavement; that a sixpence is
enough, and more than enough, for him, and that it is wrong to encourage
such exorbitance.

* * * * *

Now, that Mr. Higgins should feel thirsty in the morning, or that Mrs.
Smith should regret to part with a sixpence, concerns not us; we have
not been writing to correct public morals, but only to amuse the
readers of THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERA.

ERRATA. [corrected in etext]

Page. Line.
16 6 after a, insert _fast man or a_.
34 10 " chef (d' orchestre), read _chef d'orchestre_.
34 17 " chef (d' orchestre), " _chef d'orchestre_.
55 10 " guoi, read _quoi_.
55 10 " singers, read _Singers_.
55 11 " led horse, read _lead horse_.
70 24 " was, read _is_.
76 12 " bulverse, read _boulverse_.
92 22 " gentlemen, read _gentleman_.

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