"Oh, I see," said the very young god.)


And when a year later the hundred-thousandth English mother woke up to read that her boy had been shot, I am afraid she shed foolish tears and thought that the world had come to an end.

Poor short-sighted creature! She didn't realise that Porkins, who had marched round in ninety-six the day before, was now thoroughly braced up.

("What babies they all are," said the very young god.)

A. A. M.


An Invidious Distinction.

"An Opening offers for a Gentleman or Public School man...."

Advt. in "The Times."