"Ah!" said William thoughtfully.

William is thirty-eight, but he has taken the great decision. He is going up to Cambridge next term. He thinks it will be quicker. He no longer stands in the queue for two hours every day; he spends the time instead studying for his Little Go.

A.A.M.


TREES AND FAIRIES.

The larch-tree gives them needles

To stitch their gossamer things;

Carefully, cunningly toils the oak

To shape the cups of the fairy folk;

The sycamore gives them wings.