They are extremely rare).

Gilbert K. Chesterton, England’s great humorist of today, is cleverly gay in his French Forms.

A BALLADE OF SUICIDE

The gallows in my garden, people say,

Is new and neat and adequately tall.

I tie the noose on in a knowing way

As one that knots his necktie for a ball;

But just as all the neighbours—on the wall—

Are drawing a long breath to shout “Hurray!”

The strangest whim has seized me.... After all