g in a Sunday Paper of a report of a demand made by
Viennese clerks for doubled salaries._

For "CATS'," read "COATS'." _O_ the diff! as WORDSWORTH said.

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"Retriever Wanted; steady good worker: retrieve feather or
fur, land or water."--_Provincial Paper_.

The exile of Amerongen could do with one of this breed.

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"The act of the donor suggests the lines:

"'How far doth that little candle throw its beams
On like a good deed in a naughty world.'"
_Daily Graphic_.

The author's name is not given, but we do not think he has improved
much on SHAKSPEARE.

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THE YEOMAN TRANSFORMED.

[In accordance with the new Territorial organisation some
famous Yeomanry Regiments are to become Motor Machine-Gun
Units.]

Can a horseman turn from his heart's desire at the stroke of a
statesman's pen?
Can we learn to fight from a motor-car--we who were mounted men?
In a petrol-tank and a sparking-plug shall we strive to put our
trust,
And hang our spurs as a souvenir to gather reproachful rust?

Shall we never again ride knee to knee in the pomp of squadron line,
With head-ropes white as a mountain drift and curb chains all
a-shine?
Will they dawn no more, those glorious days when the world seemed
all our own,
Who rode as scouts on an errant quest, alive, alert, alone?

Can a man be made by a motor-car as a man is made by a horse,
With strength in his back and legs and arms, and a brain of swift
resource?
We cared for our mounts before ourselves, their thirst before our
thirst;
Shall we come to learn, with the same content, to think of an
engine first?

Grousing enough. Though times have changed a man may be needed yet.
Shall we stand aloof in an idle dream to nourish a vain regret?
Whatever England may ask of us our service must be hers;
And a horseman's quality 's in his heart and not in a pair of spurs.

W.K.H.

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THE GREAT MUTTON CAMPAIGN.

The recent disclosures concerning the enormous stocks of frozen mutton
held by the Ministry of Food--some of it killed two years ago--have
put the Government on their mettle, and a vigorous campaign is now in
preparation with the