Percival, who was reading aloud, let the paper fall limply from his hand.
"Frederick," he said, "put your biggest boots on and kick me. The word-merchant was laughing at us all the time."
COMMERCIAL CONSCIENTIOUSNESS.
TRAPPING IMITATION ERMINE.
"The letter about the Bloomsbury cat that bought her own cat's meat in your issue of December 6th is interesting."
A Correspondent in "The Spectator."
The cat would, however, have shown more regard for the feelings of our justly-esteemed contemporary if it had wrapped up its purchase in some other publication.