CANINE SAGACITY.—Numerous instances of this have been quoted in the Spectator and other papers. Our Toby would like to be informed how one clever dog would communicate with another clever dog, if the former were in a great hurry? The reply from a great authority in the K9 Division, signing himself "DOGBERRY," is that "the clever dog would either tailegraph or tailephone; but that, anyhow, in the strictest confidence, he would tell his own tail."
THE MANNERS OF OUR CHILDREN!
(Fragment from a Tragic Farce, suggested by a Correspondence in a Daily Paper.)
SCENE—The Sanctum of Paterfamilias. Enter to him JACKY, his eldest born.
Pater. (cordially). How are you, old chap?
Jacky. Very well, thank you, Father. And will you forgive me—is not "chap" a trifle slangy?
Pater. (astonished). Eh! what?
Jacky. You were good enough to write to my Form Master after the Easter Vacation, complaining of my style. Consequently that worthy pedagogue has given more than usual attention to that part of my education.