From an interview with the Superintendent of Regent's Park:—
"'People seem surprised,' he said, 'when I tell them that within a few minutes' walk of Baker Street Station, and the incessant din of Marylebone Road, such birds as the cuckoo, flycatcher, robin and wren have reared their young.'"—Observer.
To hear of the cuckoo bringing up its own family in any circumstances was, we confess, a little bit of a shock.
"'Idling, my dear fellow!' was Mr. Jerome K. Jerome's decisive answer to my question: 'What do you most like doing at holiday-time?'
'But if, and only when, I am really driven to exertion, let me have a horse between my legs, a pair of oars, and a billiard-table, and I ask nothing more of the gods.'"—Answers.
The next time Mr. Jerome indulges in this performance may we be there to see.
