e the Morris-dances, "Shepherd's Hey" (with nothing about
a "nonny-nonny" in it), and "Haste to the Wedding." There might perhaps
be a greater propriety in the latter if it were confined to men; but at
least it raised no apprehension that anybody was going to "repent at
leisure." In the "Flamborough Sword" dance, the men (with no Amazon
assistance) raced through the figure and out again, eight of them, armed
with bloodless wooden swords--a finely ordered riot.

"Lady's Pleasure," a Morris-jig for two men, lays hold of you at the
first bar, and again with a fresh grip and a tighter as the music slows
up for the dancers to do their "capers"--all to the music of Mr. Cecil
Sharp at the piano and Miss Avril at the fiddle.

The object of The English Folk Dance Society is to teach rather than to
perform in public. Hence the rarity of their displays, and the better
reason why we should seize, when they come, our chances of assisting at
these delightful exhibitions of an art whose revival has done so much to
restore to the countryside the unpretentious joys that gave its name to
Merrie England.

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"It was the time when Henry III. was batting with Simon de
Montfort and his Barons"--_Straits Times._

But not at Lord's, which has only just celebrated its centenary.

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GREAT ECONOMY EFFECTED BY CO-OPERATION IN ADVERTISEMENT.

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THE MILITANTS' TARIFF.

_Etna Lodge, W._

Mrs. Bangham Smasher, having entered into partnership with the Misses
Burnham Blazer, as General Agents of Destruction, begs to inform the
public that the firm will prepared to execute commissions of all kinds,
at the shortest notice, on the very moderate terms given below:--

L s. _d_.

For breaking windows, per window 0 7 6
For howling, kicking, or biting during service
in church, per howl, kick, or bite 0 10 6
For sitting on doorsteps of obnoxious persons,
per hour, if fine 0 15 0
For sitting on doorsteps of obnoxious persons,
per hour, if wet 1 1 0
For damaging golf greens, per green 1 11 6
For throwing shoes at magistrates in court,
according to size and weight of shoe,
from 2