Daughter. "Well, Mummy, I prayed for you, but Jack prayed for Daddy. He's looking after him just now."


MUSIC IN WAR TIME.

The Converted Collector.

(An Order in Council prohibits the importation of all musical instruments.)

In ancient, peaceful ante-bellum days—

Now far remote as Hannibal's or Hanno's—

I had a weakness, possibly a craze,

For buying Hun pianos.

I let no patriotic sentiment