stare at Miss J'mima Ivins, and another gentleman in a
plaid waistcoat _would_ wink at Miss J'mima Ivins's friend; on which Miss
Jemima Ivins's friend's young man exhibited symptoms of boiling over, and
began to mutter about 'people's imperence,' and 'swells out o' luck;' and
to intimate, in oblique terms, a vague intention of knocking somebody's
head off; which he was only prevented from announcing more emphatically,
by both Miss J'mima Ivins and her friend threatening to faint away on the
spot if he said another word.

The concert commenced--overture on the organ. 'How solemn!' exclaimed
Miss J'mima Ivins, glancing, perhaps unconsciously, at the gentleman with
the whiskers. Mr. Samuel Wilkins, who had been muttering apart for some
time past, as if he were holding a confidential conversation with the
gilt knob of the dress-cane, breathed hard-breathing vengeance,
perhaps,--but said nothing. 'The soldier tired,' Miss Somebody in white
satin. 'Ancore!' cried Miss J'mima Ivins's friend. 'Ancore!' shouted
the gentleman in the plaid waistcoat immediately, hammering the table
with a stout-bottle. Miss J'mima Ivins's friend's young man eyed the man
behind the waistcoat from head to foot, and cast a look of interrogative
contempt towards Mr. Samuel Wilkins. Comic song, accompanied on the
organ. Miss J'mima Ivins was convulsed with laughter--so was the man
with the whiskers. Everything the ladies did, the plaid waistcoat and
whiskers did, by way of expressing unity of sentiment and congeniality of
soul; and Miss J'mima Ivins, and Miss J'mima Ivins's friend, grew lively
and talkative, as Mr. Samuel Wilkins, and Miss J'mima Ivins's friend's
young man, grew morose and surly in inverse proportion.

Now, if the matter had ended here, the little party might soon have
recovered their former equanimity; but Mr. Samuel Wilkins and his friend
began to throw looks of defiance upon the waistcoat and whiskers. And
the waistcoat and whiskers, by way of intimating the slight degree in
which they were affected by the looks aforesaid, bestowed glances of
increased admiration upon Miss J'mima Ivins and friend. The concert and
vaudeville concluded, they promenaded the gardens. The waistcoat and
whiskers did the same; and made divers remarks complimentary to the
ankles of Miss J'mima Ivins and friend, in an audible tone. At length,
not satisfied with these numerous atrocities, they actually came up and
asked Miss J'mima Ivins, and Mi