It was, in short, not a supper, but, as Mary Rotheram expressed it, using her favourite adjective at the moment, a supreme banquet.
Then another friend, with spectacles, called the Snarker, came in, and they began.

Mr.Lenox's young brother was a very attentive host, and made everyone eat too much.

Then he made a speech to propose the health of the Slowcoaches, as he called them, and to wish them a prosperous journey.

"That you will all be happy," he said, very gravely, in conclusion, "is our earnest wish.

But the one thing which my friends and I desire more than any other--and I assure you that they are with me most cordially in this sentiment (aren't you, Fizzy?
aren't you, Shrimp?
aren't you, Snarker ?)--the one thing that we desire more than any other is, that you may never be run in for exceeding the speed limit." This was a very successful joke.
After supper came Fizzy's conjuring tricks, which were not very bewildering to children who had once had a real conjurer from the Stores, as these had, and then a charade played by Mary, Horace, Fizzy, and Shrimp for the others to guess.
The first act represented a motorist (Fizzy) who ran over and killed an old woman (Mary), and was arrested by a policeman (Horace), and fined eighteenpence by a magistrate (Shrimp).
The second was a cockney scene in which two costers (Fizzy and Shrimp) took their girls (Mary and Horace) to Hampstead Heath to 'ave fun.
The third was Henry VIII.