Consider, then, these noble men,
And you'll regret you are
Unmarried still, and quickly will
Do like Cophetua!
Put a Stop to It!—A Correspondent, signing himself "O'Noodle," asks, "What does this mean? See Cook's Guide-Book to Paris, page 23:—'Visitors should take the precautions against pickpockets recommended by the Administration.'" A comma or a dash after "precautions," and another after "pickpockets," or put pickpockets into brackets—handcuff 'em, in fact—and then O'Noodle will get at the sense of the paragraph.
A DOLE-FUL PROSPECT.
Easter.—Wonder what the effect of the Bishop's appeal to the "loyal laity," to come down heavily with Easter Offerings to the Clergy, will be? Rather an exciting day for me. Hard-up is not the word for my condition at present. Can't keep myself, and have to keep a Gardener and a Curate!
A lot of cast-off clothes arrive from "A Sympathetic Parishioner!" How degrading! Wish Bishop of Worcester hadn't said that he knew a Clergyman who stayed in bed because he had no decent clothes to wear. Congregation seem to think he meant me! Two blankets, and a rig-out of "Cellular under-clothing," from "Church Defence," addressed to "Our Beloved but Impoverished Incumbent." Quite insulting! Give blankets to Gardener, and send the Cellular things to Curate, as his tendencies are distinctly monastic.