intelligence can be developed in favourable circumstances:—

I am Sir, Yours faithfully,
George Washington Cook.

"Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy said it had been advocated in The Times.

The Premier: I will be prepared to believe anything of The Times, but really I do not tink it has ever suggested tat."—Daily Mail.

Mr. Lloyd George is always ready to give The Times tink-for-tat.

Guest (to Fellow-Guest at garden-party who has offered to introduce her to well-known Socialist). "I don't think so, thanks. He looks rather fearsome."

Fellow-Guest. "My dear, he's one of the few decent people here—belongs to an old English labouring family."

I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER.

(Carefully imitated from the best models, except that it has somehow got into metre and rhyme.)