Then a shout of joy from the throng went forth; they built him a crystal throne,

And there in his pride, with none beside, he rules and he reigns alone.

And this is the tale which I here set down, as the story was told to me—

In excellent Rudyard-Kipling verse—the tale of the Sundered Flea.


ANTICIPATORY NEWS (from Our Own Court Tripping Newsman).—Sir ALGERNON BORTHWICK, Bart, M.P., will be raised to the Peerage with the title of Lord MORNINGPOST, of Penniwise, Seefarshire, N.B.


An Anti-lawn-tennis Lady considers that the argument against Croquet, as a game involving a bent back, and a narrowing of the chest, is merely "A very stoopit objection."