I took him up and sucked his blood,

And threw his skin away.”

What was he? Answer.—An orange.

With a nonsensical acrostic on the word Finis, well known in the beginning of this century, I must end this (I fear) long, rambling work.

“F—for Francis,

I—for Jancis,

N—for Nich’las Bony;

I—for John the water-man,

S—for Sally Stony.”

M. A. Courtney.