"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