scious of the coming storm, had,
as mentioned, discreetly disappeared. As an offering to righteous
indignation he left behind him on the Treasury Bench the body of
ATTORNEY-GENERAL. That astute statesman avoided difficulty and
personal disaster by meekly undertaking to lay before the PRIME
MINISTER the views so eloquently and pointedly set forth by the hon.
Member.

Mr. HOGGE graciously assented to this course, and what at the outset
looked like threatening incident terminated.

_Business done._--Budget Bill passed Third Reading without a division.

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[Illustration: _Waiter._ "WHAT SAUCE WILL YOU TAKE WIZ YOUR FISH,
SAIR?"

_Polite Customer._ "WELL, WHAT DISINFECTANTS HAVE YOU?"]

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"Mr. Hogge: Can the Prime Minister say whether any of those
taking part in the Conference attached any conditions to their
entering the Conference?

'I cannot sty,' replied the Premier."--_Evening News._

Was this quite worthy of the PRIME MINISTER? We ourselves do not care
for these personal jokes on people's names.

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"Mr. Asquith's statement was thus of sensational interest,
because it represented the last effort at the eleventh minute
of the eleventh hour to avert Civil War."--_Dublin Evening
Mail._

No need to hurry. There are still forty-nine minutes left.

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The Finances of Cricket.

"Cumberland batted first and reached the total of L272, C. A.
Hardcastle (87), R. B. Brown (41), and R. C. Saint (27) being
the chief contributors."--_Daily News and Leader._

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Suggested mottoes for the L.C.C.:--

"PROGRESS MODERATELY."

"TRAM UP A CHILD."

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[Illustration: SUGGESTION FOR DEVELOPING A "WHITE HOPE" AMONGST OUR
'BUS- AND TAXI-DRIVERS.]

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THE MISSIONARY.

Where Oriental calm derides
Our Occidental stress
And Ninety-seven E. collides
With Five-and-twenty S.,

You'll find a product of the West,
A Bachelor of Arts,
Who blends a mind of youthful zest
With patriarchal parts.

Each morning mid his rubber trees
He rides an ancient hack,
A cassock girt above his knees,
A topee tilted back.

Now reining in his steed to preach
A parable