“To be well booted,” says The Times, “is to feel well dressed, at the top of one’s power and joy.” A small boy, however, who was well booted by a larger boy the other day admits that he received a good dressing, but holds that, apart from this, The Times was misinformed.
The announcement that in the course of excavations on the site of the old General Post Office in St. Martin’s-le-Grand, some old Roman tile stamps have been discovered, has caused, we hear, a profound sensation in philatelic circles.
Exceptionally rough weather is reported from the Bay of Biscay, and it is said that on a certain passenger vessel even the valet of a well-known nobleman was ill, although he was an old retainer.
“Fishing with rod and line from a boat in the Downs at Deal,” says The Daily Mail, “Lord Herschell and a friend caught 600 fish on Sunday. The fish, mostly pouting, were hauled in three and four at a time.” We suspect they were pouting to show their annoyance at having their Sabbath rest disturbed.
It is proposed in an L.C.C. report that barges should be used as open-air schools on the river. Schools of language, presumably.