A PUZZLER.
Sir,—I enclose a cutting from the Manchester Guardian, June 25.
"Yesterday the Darwen police arrested Thomas Beckett, a weaver. During a disturbance in a local public-house on Saturday night Beckett was kicked under the chin, and died immediately."
Query when was Thomas Beckett arrested? What became of the man who, in the "disturbance," kicked Beckett under the chin?
Yours, Snipper.
"The New Boy."—Doing wonderfully well. "Going strong."—White Lodge, Richmond.
"VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!"
"THE TEAR THAT BRIMMETH, BLINDETH NOT HER EYE,
SO FIXED ALOFT IT LOWERETH NOT TO GREET
THE WRITHING REPTILE BRUISED BY HER UNFALTERING FEET!"