Biddy (recovering a spoon the morning after the party). "Sure, one av the guests must have had a hole in his pockut."
TO THE NEW POLICEMAN.
["Increased remuneration is attracting to the force a more intellectual and better class of recruit.... Police administration here is now organised in a more humanitarian spirit than formerly, and a policeman is as much encouraged to prevent the necessity of an arrest as to effect an arrest."—Sir William Gentle (retiring chief of the Brighton Police Force, unofficially known as "Sir William Gentle's Gentlemen"), interviewed by "The Daily Sketch.">[
O Robert, in our hours of crime
Certain to nab us every time,
Or, failing, fill a dungeon cell