"I believe His Highness has left England, but the movements of the Afghan Prince remain nowadays unreported in the daily papers."
"You astonish me!" exclaimed Rip. "Does nothing interest you?"
"Well, not such out-of-date matters as those to which you have referred. My good friend, you are talking of things that happened ages—or to be quite accurate, about three weeks—ago. They belong to the past."
"Then what is now engaging your attention?"
"Why, one subject to the exclusion of all others—how to spend the recess!"
"Oh, indeed!" exclaimed Rip; and being a reasonable sort of person he again sought the good services of the hypnotist and went to sleep, hoping to return to consciousness when his countrymen had finished their holiday.
THE THREE CHOIRS.
A Song of the 172nd musical meeting of the Three
Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester and Hereford,
which opens at Gloucester on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Air—"The Three Ravens."