I once knew a bowler named Patrick

Who, after performing the "hat-trick,"

Remarked, as he bowed

His respects to the crowd,

"It's nothing: I often do that trick!"


BADLY SYNGED.

The scene is the morning-room of the Smith-Hybrows' South London residence. It is the day following the final performance of the Smith-Hybrows' strenuous season of J.M. Synge drama, undertaken with the laudable intention of familiarising the suburb with the real Irish temperament and the works of the dramatist in question.