MERELY A SUGGESTION.
Mr Punch (to the Shahzada). "Wouldn't your Highness like to see the North Pole?"
["At the weekly meeting of the Balloon Society on the 6th inst., Herr S. A. Andrée read a paper on the projected Polar balloon expedition.... He intended, he said, to go to Spitzbergen and wait for a southerly wind, which would take him very quickly into the Polar regions."
Pall Mall Gazette, August 7, 1895.
TO CHLOË.
You're mine "in haste"—and so it ends,
The usual scrambling, headlong letter;
Long vanished are the days of friends
Not otherwise more kind or better,
Who yet excelled in this respect—
In that they grudged not time or trouble
The choicest phrases to select,
Nor wrote their letters "at the double"!