e Over Here_.

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A correspondent points out in _The Daily Express_ that there are five
Sundays in the present month. We understand however that Mr. WINSTON
CHURCHILL is not to blame this time.

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OUR CYNICS.

"It is stated that the management of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co.
intend to change the name of the newly-acquired steamer Onward to
something more in keeping with the traditions of the Company."--_Ramsey
Courier_.

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"Serious complaint is being made at another recurrence of the failure
of the electric light in ----. It is no light matter."--_Local Paper_.

It wouldn't be.

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[Illustration: _Benevolent deck-hand_ (_to solitary small boy_). "'ULLO,
BEATTY! WHERE'S YER PA?"

_Small boy_. "UP AT THE SHARP END, LEANING OVER THE PALINGS."]

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OF CERTAIN BRUTUSES WHO MISSED THEIR MARK.

["COALITION DOOMED."--_Poster of "Evening News."_

"COALITION DEATH SENTENCE."--_"Times'" Headline on Mr. ASQUITH at Paisley._

"BLOW TO THE COALITION."--_"Times'" Headline on Mr. BARNES'S resignation_.]

Have you heard of the coming of Nemesis,
How she glides through the ambient gloom
That envelops the Downing-Street premises
Where GEORGE is awaiting his doom?
For the hour of his utter discredit
Has struck and the blighter must go
If the Carmelite organs have said it
It's bound to be so.

The Cabinet's daily imbroglio
Amounts to a permanent brawl;
Mr. BARNES has resigned a portfolio
Which never existed at all;
It is true he was, anyhow, going,
Yet it serves (in _The Times_) for a sign
Of the symptoms, perceptibly growing,
Of GEORGE'S decline.

Mr. ASQUITH (of Paisley) endorses
The sentence of violent death,
Though he leaves him alternative courses
For yielding his ultimate breath;
He allows him an optional charter--
To swing by his neck from a tree,
Or to perish a piteous martyr
To _felo-de-se_.

And what of poor Damocles under
This horror that hangs by a thread?
Does he wilt in a palsy and wonder
How soon it will sever his head?
Are his lips and his cheeks of a blank hue?
Does he toy with his victuals and drink?
Not at all; on the contrary, thankyou,
His health's in the pink.

He'll be ba