"Twenty Students Require clean, respectable Board-Residence; would not object to Share Bed."—Provincial Paper.
They should have lived in the days of Og, the King of Basan; his bedstead was a bedstead.
"Calcutta.
During the past few weeks several parties of Afghan merchants and traders have settled up their affairs and come into India. In order to avoid being questioned by British poets in the Khyber, they have entered this country by way of the Sissobi pass."—Indian Paper.
Some of our poets are notoriously curious, and we are hardly surprised to learn that the Afghans could not "abide their question."
