Yours, wondering what next, One of the Old School.
The Last of the Go-he-cans.—The Times for November 1, in giving a list of the Masters of Foxhounds, mentioned the Rev. E. M. Reynolds as "the only clergyman who can append M.F.H. to his name." Of course this does not mean that no other clergyman "can" do so, or the Clergy would indeed be an uneducated set, but that the Rev. E. M. Reynolds is the only successor of the Rev. Jack Russell who has the right to append M.F.H. to his name. How often does his pack meet? Is it Reynolds's Weekly? If the hounds are a trifle mixed, it may be known as Reynolds's Miscellany.
Captain Stokes, who peremptorily ordered Mr. O'Brien off to prison, seems to be the sort of a man that Charles Dickens described as a "Harbitrary Gent." Quite a despotic Turk. As the Nationalists call the Castle Officials "Bashi-Bazouks," let them allude to the gallant Captain and Magistrate as "Stokes Bey."
International Punch.
International Arbitration.—Should difficulties ever arrive at this peaceable solution—(so likely!—ahem!—but always a Bright Dream)—then there could not be a name of better omen for a representative of British Interests than "Lyon Playfair."