WHEEL OR WOE.

Maud (who has had the misfortune to bring her Cousin from Provincial Town into the Row). "But, good gracious! I thought you were accustomed to Horses; in fact, you told me you had been Riding a good deal lately."

He (in intervals of bumping). "B—b—but it was a B—b—Bicycle!"


NOMINE TANTUM.

This morn, as now for half a score of years,

I comfortably caught the nine-fifteen;