VI.
THE STUART QUEEN.
"Bags—I Tablo-Weevongs to-day," quoth the Vice, as he and the President went upstairs to the portion of the Club premises devoted to Literary, Sporting, Dramatic, and Social purposes.
"Right O," acquiesced the President. "Fish out the History Pictures."
The Vice preferred Tableaux Vivants to the Legitimate Drama as there was practically nothing to remember; one merely had to pose oneself gracefully in the rôle of the represented personage, and either hold one's peace, or "gag" as the spirit moved one.
In acting, as distinct from the tableau, there is such a dreadful lot to remember, what with appropriate gestures, prescribed postures, and ordainéd words.
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