Square, and, after paying the Cabby jest what he chose to arsk, she arsked, with a sweet smile, if I shood be offended if she gave me jest a triful for praps saving her life, as she said.  I told her, as I was only a pore Waiter, I was used to tips and strays; so she gave me a reel gold sovering, and a good arty squeeze of the hand, and paid the Cabby to take me home, and finisht by saying, “If you ever want a triful, Sir, you know where to get it.”  And all I has to add is, that I thinks as my better arf mite have been jest a leetel more grayshus, as I told her, with amost tears in my eyes, of the graitfool conduck of the Lady of ——­ Square.

ROBERT.

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CHRISTMAS IN GERMANY.—­“The beauties of Leadenhall and Farringdon,” said the D.T., “do not figure in ‘der Hallen an der Spree.’” But in England, during Christmas time generally, we were “Hallen on der Spree.”  Rather!

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“THE DRAMA OF TO-DAY.”—­A Morning Performance.

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