s intellect blow through
them."

"What," I said--"through the haunch of mutton?"

"Yes, you could do without the haunch, you know, and score off the
butcher."

"That's a sound idea. You're not so badly measled as I thought you were."

"Oh," she said, "I shall soon be rid of them altogether."

"To tell you the truth, I wish you'd hurry up."

"Long live the counter-revolution!"

"Oh, as long as you like," I said.

"Have you given the children their medicine and taken their temperatures?"

"I'm just off to do it," I said.

R.C.L.

* * * * *

[Illustration: SCENE: _A lonely road somewhere in France._

_Diminutive Warrior_ (_suddenly confronted with ferocious specimen of the
local fauna_). "LUMME! IF IT AIN'T THE REGIMENTAL COAT-OF-ARMS COME TO
LIFE!"]

* * * * *

"The Wady Ghuzzeh, or river of Gaza, a stream-bed which makes no large
assertion on the map. But it 'just divides the desert from the sewn.'"
--_Sunday Paper_.

Being, as you might say, a mere thread.

* * * * *

Extracts from an article entitled "London Sights: An Australian's
Impressions":--

"When all is over and we are back where the coyote cries ... when the
Rockies are looking down at us from their snowy heights, and the
night-time silence steals across the fir-bordered
foothills...."--_Sunday Times_.

Yet what is all this to the longing of the Canadian for the nightly howl of
the kangaroo and the song of the wombat flitting among the blue-gums in his
native bush?

* * * * *

According to a French philosopher mankind is divided into two categories,
_Les Huns et les autres_.

* * * * *

"Sydney, January 2.

Concurrently with the inauguration of the new time schedule at 2 a.m.
on Monday a violent earth tremor was experienced at Orange. An
accompanying noise lasted about a half minute."--_Brisbane Courier_.

Another family quarrel between [Greek: Kronos] and [Greek: Ge].

* * * * *

"Petrograd, Wednesday,

The Council of Workmen's Delegates has issued an appeal to the
proletariat, which contains the following striking passage: We shall
defend our liberty to the utmost against all attacks within and
without. The Russian revolution will not quail before the bayca fwyaa,
mfwyawayqawyq