132 A NICE DISTINCTION. 



haps, you will criticise. A gentleman, who, 

 I suppose, was not the sweetest in the world, 

 sitting in the front boxes at the playhouse, on 

 a crowded night, his neighbour very familiarly 

 told him he smelt strong. "No, sir," replied 

 he, with infinite good humour ; "it is you that 

 smell — I stink.'''' 



