Of course, if any principle of selection has come in, as in those special associations of young men which are common in cities, it deranges the uniformity of the assemblage.
But let there be no such interfering circumstances, and one knows pretty well even the look the audience will have, before he goes in.

Front seats: a few old folk,--shiny-headed,--slant up best ear towards the speaker,--drop off asleep after a while, when the air begins to get a little narcotic with carbonic acid.

Bright women's faces, young and middle-aged, a little behind these, but toward the front--( pick out the best, and lecture mainly to that.) Here and there a countenance, sharp and scholarlike, and a dozen pretty female ones sprinkled about.

An indefinite number of pairs of young people,--happy, but not always very attentive.

Boys, in the background, more or less quiet.