UNCERTAINTIES OF ARITHMETIC.
Schoolmaster. "Yes; but look here, my Boy. Suppose I were to lend your Father Five Hundred Pounds, let us say,—without Interest,—but on condition that he should pay me Ten Pounds a Week. How much would he still Owe me in Two Months?"
New Boy. "Five Hundred Pounds, Sir!"
Schoolmaster. "Tut! Tut! My Boy, you don't know the First Principles of Arithmetic!"
New Boy. "You don't know my Father, Sir!"
PRIMROSE'S PEEP-SHOW.
(Vide Lord Rosebery's resumé of the year's work of the London County Council.)
Master Bull loquitur:—
Humph! Show is very passable, no doubt;
And as you pull the strings, my clever Showman,