As good ships should and as brave men may ...

And we'll build 'em still, and we'll breed 'em again,

The same good ships and the same good men,

The same—the same—the same as we've done before!

C.F.S.


A FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANT.

Cozens has a conscience—a conformist conscience—and is a first-class season-ticket holder.

The other morning we were travelling up to town together as usual. He was evidently bursting with the anticipatory pride of telling me something very much to his credit. Presently, at a gap in my reading, he said:—

"I left my season at home this morning, so I bought a return."