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Trousers having proved a useless ' draw ' during the last week 

 on account of some rather startling demands made upon his 

 privy purse by Miss Tottie Turnover. 



PENELOPE. 



Jack felt that fate had been especially hard upon him in 

 regard to Penelope Binkie. No one could call him a ' laggard 

 in love,' for within a week of being introduced — which was 

 only a reasonable time for making a few financial enquiries as 

 to her probable prospects — he had proposed to lay at the lady's 



