Summary

W. Pett Ridge,  Mixed Grill — Third Person Singular (1913)

“ A man who could make my governess laugh was a man capable of anything. Going to the end of the room, he took a figure of a boy in a Tam o' Shanter cap out of his bag, and, setting it upon his knee, started absolutely the best entertainment I have seen in the whole course of my existence. We all rested on the floor; my mother stood near the doorway, but I was too much interested in Mr. Cartwright's performance to pay attention to her. ”
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W. Pett Ridge,  Mixed Grill — Third Person Singular (1913)

“ My governess is not, if I may say so, possessed of incredible cleverness, and after writing out the charade and starting rehearsals, she found she had forgotten the word, and as no one could guess it, and she appeared unable to think of another, it became evident that we could not rely upon this as a source of entertainment. It was then I announced to my mother that I had already sent a note to a friend of mine, a man whose equal for entertaining a party was rarely encountered, and that I expected a reply from him in the course of a post or two. ”
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