If, in a word, you run a show amazing,
With precious little help to see you through it,
Yours is a temper far above all praising,
And—here we reach the point—I've seen you do it.
"Annie —— was fined £2 for failing to have the name attached to apples at a stall in —— Market. Mr. —— said the public were being wilfully kept in ignorance as to what they were buying."—Provincial Paper.
We think the Magistrate was rather pernickety. Most people know an apple when they see one, but the trouble in these days is to see one at all.
THE RULE OF THE ROAD.
I admire all poilus, and especially did I admire Pierre. Once only did I find him at fault. It was one of my functions on a hospital ship plying between —— and —— to wheel about the more fortunate of the patients. On the occasion on which I met Pierre he was journeying to his mother in London and was temporarily engaged in the same pursuit. I beheld him approaching with his charge and immediately ported my helm. He bore down on his, keeping to his right, and we collided.