future is
bright with promise." We know nothing of its future, but its present
seems to be scintillating with performance under Bolshevik direction.

***

"Cave exploration," declares a writer in _The Daily Mail_, "is a most
fascinating sport." There is always the thrilling possibility that you
may find another Liberal principle hidden away somewhere.

***

Owing to the increased cost of living it is said that burglars will
now only book jewel robberies of two thousand pounds and over.

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[Illustration: CHAGRIN OF MEMBER OF ADVANCED ART GROUP AT NECESSITY OF
MAKING THE LETTERING OF HIS POSTER INTELLIGIBLE.]

* * * * *

"NEW POLICY IN IRELAND.

NO TRIALS WITHOUT ARRESTS."

_Dublin Paper._

A good idea, but it was anticipated in the matter of jugged hare.

* * * * *

"Register as a regular reader of _The Daily ----_, and you
at once disqualify for L3 a week during disablement."--_Daily
Paper._

We shall be careful not to register.

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ODYSSEUS AT THE DERBY.

[Racing men will not need to be reminded that Polumetis
(many-counselled) is named after a common epithet of the hero
of the _Odyssey_.]

At times the pulse of memory is stirred
Out of a chronic state of coma
By just a poignant tune, a rhythmic word,
A whiff of some refined aroma,
And lo! the brain is made aware
Of records which it didn't know were there.

So in a sudden moment I was shot
Back to my boyhood and the highly
Instructive works of HOMER, long forgot,
And with the late _Odysseus_ (wily)
Ploughed once again the wine-red deep
On drawing Polumetis in a sweep.

Oh, "many-counselled" hero! if a horse
Your attributes may also borrow,
Lend him your cunning round the Derby course,
Teach him a thing or two to-morrow,
That at the end it may be said:
"He did a great performance with his head."

As you contrived by tricks of crafty skill
Ever to down your foes and flatten 'em,
So may he lie low going up the hill,
Secure the inside berth at Tattenham,
And do a finish up the straight
Swift as your shafts that sealed the suitors' fate!

Fortune attend his name, though some deplore
Its pedantry, and I assume it is
Likely, from what I know of bookies' lore,
That on the rails he'll be "Pol