For a couple of days fellows continued to talk about the skit on the eleven, and to hazard guesses as to who was the writer.

He had a fight with young what's-his-name not long ago, about that skit on the Town match.

This storywhich is, of course, a skit on the "terror" novel of Mrs. Radcliffe's schoolwas not published till after its author's death, when, in 1818, it was bound up with her last book, "Persuasion.

Ridicule N. ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic grin; irrision^; scoffing &c (disrespect) 929; mockery, quiz^, banter, irony, persiflage, raillery, chaff, badinage; quizzing &c v.; asteism^. squib, satire, skit, quip, quib^, grin. parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie^; farce &c (drama) 599; caricature.

personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse

[Lat.]. personality, libel, lampoon, skit, pasquinade; chronique scandaleuse

[Fr.]; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull^, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean^, mopsy^, slut, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue &c (unchaste) 961; wanton, fornicatress^; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia^, Lais, lorette^, cocotte^, petite dame, grisette^; demimonde; chippy

Of course he claimed credit for having written the skit, and undoubtedly he originated the idea.

Tennyson has a poem called Amphion, a skit and rhyming jeu d'esprit.

DRAGON OF WANTLEY (i. e. Warncliff, in Yorkshire), a skit on the old metrical romances, especially on the old rhyming legend of Sir Bevis.

A skit on the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871).

"That little skit of yours," pursued the caller, "has swept the country.

The verse is mediocre except perhaps for a quaint play of words in an amusing little skit on the sleeping-bag argument; but an article entitled 'Valhalla' appears to me to be altogether on a different level.

Perhaps Hunt thought it indiscreet to publish this not very amusing skit, and it did not see the light till long after Shelley's death.

In that admirable skit on philosophical history, the introduction to the Book of Snobs, Thackeray first illustrates his theme by a reference to the French Revolution, and then adds (in sarcastic brackets)"Which the reader will be pleased to have introduced so early."

But The Lay of the Lovelorn is a clumsy and rather vulgar skit on Locksley Halla poem on which two such writers as Sir Theodore Martin and Professor Aytoun would have done well not to lay their sacrilegious hands.

R58604-58607, 15Feb50, Helen F. Pendexter (W) PAYIN' A BET, a blackface skit by Vincent Denito

Charles E. Skinner (A); 5Dec72; R541321. SKITS & BITS.

R58604-58607, 15Feb50, Helen F. Pendexter (W) PAYIN' A BET, a blackface skit by Vincent Denito

Charles E. Skinner (A); 5Dec72; R541321. SKITS & BITS.

" To this Mrs. Osborne sent the following reply: "Dear Mrs. Stanton: "In your skit Against your sisterhood who knit, Or useful make their fingers, I wonder ifdeny it not The habit of Lucretia Mott

We want to skit!"

"I 'spose we do," answered the son sturdily, though sulkily; "but that's the very best skit that Blank Blank ever did for us.

Anyhow, it is frankly a burlesque, a skit, a satire on the real Macaire.

The following delightful "skit" on one of these interviews suggested itself to my clever friend Miss Aimée Lowther: WHAT CONSTITUTES CHARM AN ILLUSTRATED INTERVIEW WITH MISS ELLEN TERRY "Yes, I know that I am very charming," said Miss Ellen Terry, "a perfectly delightful creature, a Queen of Hearts, a regular witch!"