And all those burglars on the stair;

I shouldn't turn a tiny hair

At such Victorian stuff;

You only have to say instead,

"There is an Earwig in Your Bed"

And that will be enough.

A.P.H.


MY RIGHT-HAND MAN.

On glancing the other day through the only human column of my newspaper—that headed "Personal"—I was much intrigued by the advertisement of a gentleman who styled himself a "busy commercial magnate," and who announced his urgent need of a "right-hand man." The duties of the post were not particularised, but their importance was made clear by the statement that "any salary within reason" would be paid to a really suitable person.