Take, France, a sister's wreath, before you laid,

In honour of you, and of your hero brave.

Love's garland shall not fade on gallant Carnot's grave!


A PUZZLER.

Sir,—I enclose a cutting from the Manchester Guardian, June 25.

"Yesterday the Darwen police arrested Thomas Beckett, a weaver. During a disturbance in a local public-house on Saturday night Beckett was kicked under the chin, and died immediately."

Query when was Thomas Beckett arrested? What became of the man who, in the "disturbance," kicked Beckett under the chin?

Yours, Snipper.