To Corinna, angry.

The fault was mine. With piercing pang

My trespass I deplore;

But, when 'tis I you ought to bang,

Why do you bang the door?


Q. E. D.—There is said to be a good deal of illness and absence from lessons of the schoolboy population of London at present. Can there be any connection between this phenomenon and a paragraph which is going the round of the papers, headed, "An objection to Euclid"? What is sport to us may be death to them!