Faint Praise.
"The House of Commons was seen at its best to-day. The benches, it is true, were more than all empty."—Cork Constitution.
From a letter to a school-teacher:—
"I think as Eliza as the mumps. Pleas look at her throte and if she as rub her jor well to tak away the stif feeling and oblig."
From War News in The Peshawur Daily News:—
"The 'Langford' knocked out the gunboat 'Smith' in three rounds."
How like a German gunboat (obviously "Schmidt") to disguise itself with an English name.
"MISS JEFFERSON RECALLED IN BREACH SUIT."
"Evening News" Headline.
Although the defendant in this case was a cycle-dealer, we think that these sudden changes of costume are liable to lead to confusion and should, therefore, be forbidden.
Officer (on rounds near revolving light). "Anything to report?"
Sentry. "No, Sir; there's no muckle ta riporrt; but yon folks hae been havin' a heap o' trouble wi' their light: it's gone oot twenty times in the last oor."