From a cattle-auction advertisement:—
"NOTE.—Pigs and Calves are requested to be forward by 11 o'clock."—Kirkendbrightshire Advertiser.
Vive la politesse!
"The hereditary privilege of remaining covered in the presence of the Monarch was granted by Henry VIII. to John Forester of Watling Street, in 1570."—Observer.
We wonder what GOOD QUEEN BESS thought about this posthumous interference on the part of her papa.
From Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S latest novel:—
"It was, indeed, something of an achievement to get on terms of confidence with those alien children ... many of whom had acquired a precocious suspicion of Greeks bearing gifts. That sense of caveat donor was perhaps their most pathetic characteristic."