put her _in_?
Little Tommy _Green_.

(_a_) Carefully amend the above so that they rhyme properly.

(_b_) Do you as a matter of principle approve of these kinds of rhyme?

(_c_) If not, do you approve of them in (i) SHAKSPEARE, (ii) WORDSWORTH,
(iii) SHELLEY, (iv) Any serious classic?

A.P.H.

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[Illustration: _Customer._ "AND I HAD ONE OF THOSE LITTLE ROUND BUN
ARRANGEMENTS."

_Waitress._ "THAT'LL BE ANOTHER TUPPENCE."

_Customer._ "ONE OF THOSE THAT ARE HOLLOW, YOU KNOW."

_Waitress._ "OH--ONE OF _THEM_. THAT'LL BE FOURPENCE."]

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"Four Volumes 'The Great World War,' pre-war price Rs. 40. What offers?
Perfect."--_Indian Paper._

A clear case of propheteering.

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From an Irish Labour manifesto:--

"Impulsive cats, howsoever justifiable, may prove to be unwise."--
_Irish Paper._

Remember what happened at Kilkenny.

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THE PRIVILEGES OF MARGOTISM.

[Something was said in _Punch_ last week about the advantage to the
reminiscencer of being his (or her) own JOHNSON and BOSWELL too. Mrs.
ASQUITH'S recent adventures with the descendants of some of her late
friends, of whose fair fame they are not less jealous than she, suggest
certain of the pitfalls incident to this double _role_, particularly
when the autobiographer is remote from his (or her) journals. Since
however an inaccuracy always has a day's start and is never completely
overtaken, while in course of time the pursuit ceases altogether, the
greatest danger is not immediate but for the future. Let us imagine a
case.]

FROM "THE MARGOTIST'S REMINISCENCES."

By the Author of _Statesmen I Have Influenced_; _My Wonderful Life_; _The
Souls' Awakener_; _The Elusive Diary_, _etc., etc._

One of my dearest friends in the early nineteen hundreds was Mr. Sadrock. I
have known eleven Prime Ministers in my time and have assurances from all,
signed and witnessed, that but for me and my vivacious encouragement they
would never have pulled through; but with none was I on terms of such close
communion as with Mr. Sadrock, who not only asked my advice on every
occasion of importance, but spent many of his waking hours in finding
rhymes to my name. Some of his four-lined couplets in my honour could not
be either wittier or more charming as