Some budding HOGGE, some mute inglorious PRINGLE;
And that is why my shovel shrinks
From excavating other links.
O.S.
"In reply to your valued inquiry, we enclose illustration of Dining Tables of Oak seating fourteen people with round legs and twelve people with square legs, with prices attached. Hoping to have your order."—The Huntly Express.
Mr. Punch is now engaged upon an exhaustive examination of the extremities of his staff before deciding whether to replace his existing Round Table.
"BRITISH PRESS BACK HUN REARGUARDS."—Newspaper headline.
Happily it is only a small section of the British Press that adopts this unpatriotic attitude.