xample
of some of the elders in his profession who have adopted a laugh as
their principal bit of business. It may turn into a millstone. Was he
not laughing the same laugh on this very stage in a very different
part three days ago? He was. If he got a month, laugh-barred, he would
profit by the sentence. For he has jolly good stuff in him.

T.

[Illustration: BORROWED PLUMES IN A MAYOR'S NEST.

_Alderman Twentyman_ . Mr. O.B. CLARENCE.

_Felix Delany_ . . . . Mr. GORDON ASH.]

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MORE COMMANDEERING.

From a report of the PRIME MINISTER'S speech at Carnarvon:--

"There are eight million houses in this country. Let us have
VICTORY GUM FACTORY, Nelson, Lancs."--_Daily Dispatch._

But surely he does not want to be known as "The Stickit Minister."

* * * * *

"A grocer in a London suburb complains that on Saturday he and his
staff were 'run o ffthei rlegs by the extraordinary demands of
customers.'"--_Westminster Gazette._

We congratulate the printer on his gallant effort to depict the
situation.

* * * * *

"Wanted, Cook Generals, House Parlourmaids; fiends might
suit."--_Irish Paper._

Discussion of the eternal servant problem is apt to be one-sided; it
was quite time that we heard from the _advocatus diaboli_.

* * * * *

TO STEPHEN LEACOCK

(_Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal,
and author of "Further Foolishness" and other notable works of
humour_).

The life that is flagrantly double,
Conflicting in conduct and aim,
Is seldom untainted by trouble
And commonly closes in shame;
But no such anxieties pester
Your dual existence, which links
The functions of don and of jester--
High thought and high jinks.

Your earliest venture perhaps is
Unique in the rapture intense
Displayed in these riotous Lapses
From all that could savour of sense,
Recalling the "goaks" and the gladness
Of one whom we elders adored--
The methodical midsummer madness
Of ARTEMUS WARD.

With you, O enchanting Canadian,
We laughed till you gave us a stitch
In our sides at the wondrous Arcadian
Exploits of the indolent rich;
We loved your satirical sniping,
And followed, far over "the pond,"
The lure of your whimsical piping
Behind the Be