"Then that's all right," I said; "because you won't get one." And I cut myself a large slice of cake.


THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.

["It is impossible for me to dine out either in private or in public without having those confounded telephones mentioned to me."

Mr. Hobhouse.]

She was so young but fair to see;

Her eye conveyed the glad regard;

She murmured to the P.M.G.

That life was very, very hard

(It never crossed his mind that she

Was double seven five Gerrard).