child shoot herself!

_Hialmar_ (_irresolutely_). Well, really I don't know. There's a good
deal in what GREGERS says. Hm!

_Gina_. A good deal of tomfool rubbish! I'm illiterate, I know. I've
been a Wild Duck in my time, and I waddle. But for all that, I'm
the only person in the play with a grain of common-sense. And I'm
sure--whatever Mr. IBSEN or GREGERS choose to say--that a screaming
burlesque like this ought _not_ to end like a tragedy--even in this
queer Norway of ours! And it shan't, either! Tell the child to put
that nasty pigstol down and come away, do!

_Hialmar_ (_yielding_). Ah, well, I am a farcical character myself,
after all. Don't touch a hair of that duck's head, HEDVIG. Come to my
arms and all shall be forgiven!

[_HEDVIG throws down the pistol,--which goes off and kills a
rabbit--and rushes into her father's arms. Old EKDAL comes
out of a corner with a fowl on each shoulder, and bursts into
tears. Affecting family picture._

_Gregers_ (_annoyed_). It's all very pretty, I dare say--but it's not
IBSEN! My real mission is to be the thirteenth at table. I don't know
what I mean--but I fly to fulfil it! [_He goes._

_Hialmar_. And now we've got rid of _him_, HEDVIG, fetch me the deed
of gift I tore up, and a slip of paper, and a penny bottle of gum, and
we'll soon make a valid instrument of it again!

[_He pastes the torn deed together as the Curtain slowly
descends._

THE END (_with apologies as before_.)

* * * * *

WHY SHOULD LONDON WAIT?

OR, THE SLIGHTED METROPOLIS AND THE DISAPPOINTED MEDICAL STUDENT.

[Sir RICHARD QUAIN (seconding the proposal of Lord HERSCHELL
"that the draft Supplemental Charter for the University
of London be approved") said that with respect to Medical
Degrees, those who were not in the profession could not
realise the grievance which the Medical Students of London
felt themselves to be sustaining by not being able to obtain
their Degrees in the Metropolis. Hundreds of capable men were
driven to seek in Scotland, at Newcastle, and elsewhere the
Medical Degrees which they ought to have obtained in London.]

[Illustration]

AIR--"_The University of Gottingen." London, loquitur_:--

I.

Whene'er with longing eyes you view
Degrees, I feel I'm _un_done, Sir,
And so do the companions true
Who studied with you at the U-
-niversity of London, Sir--