Alliterative, on the plan of “A was an Apple pie.”

   )

   “Joice,” I explain, is a term derived from building; “to joice,

    i. e.

   to make joices to the floors.” Chilvern says, “Pooh!” To “vamp” is equal, in musical language, to

   “scamp” or to dodge up. The last owner evidently has done this.

    Happy Thought.

   —Good name for a Spanish speculative builder—Don Vampa di Scampo. Evidently an architect of

    Châteaux d'Espagne

   .

   We visit the stables. The gates are magnificent, two lions sit on their tails, and guard shields on two huge pillars. After this effort, the owner seems to have got tired of the place and left it.

   We notice this of every room, of various doors, of many windows.

   Successive tenants have commenced with great ideas, which have, so to speak, vanished in perspective.

   Boodels becomes melancholy. He says, “I should call this ‘The House of Good Intentions.’”

   I point out that these we are going to perfect and utilise.

   A brilliant idea strikes me. I say—

    Happy Thought.

   —Let us call it, “Happy-Thought Hall.” I add that this will look well on the top of note-paper.

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