A Vulnerable Spot.
"Lady, a word—but oh, beware!
And prithee do not slight it—
If you will have your back so bare,
Someone is sure to bite it."
"An official of the Coal Controller's Department said that everything possible would be done to relieve the situation.
'No stone will be left unturned,' he said, 'to ease the position.'"—Daily Paper.
This accounts, no doubt, for the stuff in our last half-hundredweight.