by our recent weather, quite the right man to look after it.

* * * * *

From a money-lender's circular:--

"Having been, perhaps, the richest nation in the world before the war,
and wealth being only comparative, it is our empirical duty to achieve
a like position again."

So that's why they are "trying it on."

* * * * *

"The news, says the Paris correspondent of _The Times_, in itself is
serious enough as showing the dangers of letting the Adriatic
settlement continue to be at the mercy of a coup de theatre or coup de
d'etat, whichever one may like to call it."--_Evening Paper._

We fancy the Paris correspondent of _The Times_ would prefer the former.

* * * * *

[Illustration: EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE

(_As dispensed by the LORD CHANCELLOR and a predecessor_).

INJURED PARTIES (_simultaneously_).

"OH! TO BE SMACKED BY THOSE WE LOVE DOTH WORK LIKE MADNESS IN THE BRAIN."]

* * * * *

[Illustration: FRENZIED BOXING FINANCE.

_Master of the Ceremonies._ "LOOK 'ERE! 'FORE MY MAN FIGHTS HE WANTS TWO
POTTIES, THREE GLASSIES AN' A BLOOD-ALLEY; AN' I WANTS A PACKET O' FAGS FOR
MESELF."]

* * * * *

THE BURIAL OF DUNDEE.

"Dundee is dead," said my wife, returning from her morning visit to the
kitchen.

"I am very sorry to hear it," I replied, laying down the newspaper on the
breakfast-table, at which I still lingered; and indeed I was sorry. Dundee
had been our household cat from the earliest days of our married life, from
the time when he was a tiny kitten the colour of marmalade, which had
earned him his name.

"Cook is very much upset," my wife continued.

"Her distress does her credit," I answered.

"She talks of leaving."

I must confess with shame that a pang acuter than the first went through me
at the news, for Cook was one of those rare artists who understands the
value of surprise and never rides success to death.

"Ask her to reconsider her decision," I said.

"I have," said my wife, "and she remained immovable."

"Perhaps when the first shock has worn off?"

"There is just a chance."

"Yes, I am sure you can persuade her," I concluded, preparing to leave for
my office.

"Before you go," interrupted my wife, "what are we going to do about the
burial?"

"How does one usually dispose of dead cats?" I