Chapter IV: Act I: Scene, a tavern in the outskirts of Paris. RENE, the

Huguenot, is pretending to sleep on an uncomfortable wooden bench. A drunken villain insults a lovely gipsy_. RENE _gets up and kills him, and escapes his pursuers by falling over a convenient precipice. Curtain_.

Mr. WALLER. (_Soliloquizing behind the scene_.) "To-morrow I'll have a comfortable bench to sleep on, if I have to take MACGONIGLE'S sofa. I won't play RENE again if I have to lie for twenty minutes on that infamous board bench!"

COMIC MAN. (_Who is believed to read_ HARPER'S "_Drawer_.'") "You know WATTS PHILLIPS is a grandson of old Dr. WATTS. Now here's a genealogical joke. If TOM'S father is DICK'S son, what relation is DICK to TOM?"

ACCOMPANYING FRIEND. "Nephew? niece? mother-in-law?--I give it up!"

COMIC MAN. "I thought you would. Well, he is--Upon my word I forget the answer, but it's a first rate one. I've got it down at the office, anyhow!"