"AIR RAIDS.—Peaceful country rectory, Hampshire, well out of danger zone, can receive three or four paying guests. Large garden, beautiful scenery, high, bracing. Simple life. £10 each weekly."—The Times.

This enterprising parson seems to have borrowed his recipe for the simple life from GRAY'S Elegy:—

Along the cool sequester'd vale of life

They kept the noiseless tenner of their way.


BEASTS ROYAL.

IV.

KING HENRY'S STAG-HOUND. A.D. 1536.