CHARADE OF THE RELUCTANT ECONOMIST.
Unconscious that the times are strange,
Enthroned in cushioned ease and quiet,
My first foresees not any change
In his luxurious canine diet.
While I, his master and his lord,
A hearty breakfast-eater reckoned,
No longer at my frugal board
Enjoy the pleasures of my second.
Controllers!—I detest the tribe;
Freedom I hold in deep devotion;
Why should they want to circumscribe
My powers of rapid locomotion?
My whole I can no longer buy,
'Tis useless to attempt to beg it;
And whether it be wet or dry
Three times in four I have to leg it.
"In the Commons this afternoon Mrs. Macpherson said recent fighting in Southern Palestine had resulted in the capture of a Turkish advanced position."—Nottingham Evening Post.
The lady seems, without waiting for the Franchise Bill, to have captured an advanced position herself.
"Good Bed room and sitting room, bath, h. and c., in lovely secluded garden, Hants."
Very proper. Baths should always be taken in seclusion.
"Deland is a church-going community, with Baptist, Presbyterian, two Methodists, Christian, Episcopalian and Roman Catholic Churches."—American Paper.
We are so glad the Christians were not forgotten.
