"They who faced the terrors of the deep, Who guarded our snores-while we were asleep."
Scottish Paper.
"Though his career was entirely that of a public servant, he had personality and that self-evident efficiency which mark a man out for promotion."—Times.
That "though" is rather cynical.
RECIPROCITY.
[Discussing the unruliness of modern children, a correspondent in the Press suggests that parents might exchange offspring for educational purposes.]
Hector, one thought alone forbade
Your stout progenitor to squirm
Through all the months the Huns essayed