قراءة كتاب Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920
class="center">Believe me, Yours very gravely,
Onesimus Stone (F.R.I.B.A.).
From an American book on "How and What to Read":—
"Other great American short story writers include Bret Harte, Edward Everett Hale, Frank Stockton, and Mary E. Wilkins. With these may be included Thomas Hardy's 'Life's Little Ironies,' which are full of fun."
Mr. Hardy will be glad, no doubt, to add this little irony to his collection.
THE KELPIE.
The scoffer rails at ancient tales
Of lake and stream and river;
The wise man owns that in his bones
The kelpie makes him shiver.
Big salmon-flies the scoffer buys,
Long rods and wading stockings;
Unpicturesque he walks in Esk
With unbelief and mockings.
"A river-horse! O-ho, of course!"
And shouts with ribald laughter;
He does not see in his cheap glee
The kelpie trotting after.
The storm comes chill from off the hill;
An eerie wind doth holloa;
And near and near by surges drear
The water-horse doth follow.
A snort, a snuff; enough, enough;
Past prayer or human help he
Comes never more to mortal door
Who meets the water-kelpie.
"THE KING ARRIVES IN SCOTLAND
ASKED TO LEAVE."
Consecutive Headlines in "The Daily Mirror."
The habit of reading the headlines in our pictorial newspapers without glancing at the pictures beneath them is liable to create false impressions.
