"Riding Jonies ... Shetland Jones ... Pairs of Pones ..."—Morning Post.

You see the animal they mean.


"Cutter wanted for ladies' and gentlemen's trade; city house; state experience, salary."

An ordinary enough advertisement, but The Irish Times imparts a certain melancholy humour to it by inserting it in the section headed "Yachts, Boats, etc."


"GRAND NIGHTS."

O benchers of the various ancient Inns

At whose so generous tables I have battened,