the strength of ten,
Back they came from the jungle ready to start again.

* * * * *

Ye who have travelled the wilderness, ye who have followed the chase,
Whom the voice of the forest comforts and the touch of the lonely place;
Ye who are sib to the jungle and know it and hold it good--
Praise ye the name of NIMROD, a Fellow Who Understood.

H.B.

* * * * *

THE HOUSE-AGENT'S FORLORN HOPE.

"TWO-AND-A-HALF MILES FROM STATION WITH NON-STOP TRAINS."--_Weekly Paper._

* * * * *

A TRAGIC COINCIDENCE.

"TEN PROFESSORSHIPS VACANT

IN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.

Lausanne, Monday.

The giant British aeroplane G.E.A.T.L., from Cricklewood aerodrome,
London, landed at Blecherette, Lausanne, at 6-5 this evening."--_Irish
Paper._

Did all the ten Sydney Professors fall out of it together?

* * * * *

AT THE PLAY.

"THE PRUDE'S FALL."

Though the hero is French and takes up his residence in an English
cathedral town in order to rectify our British prudery and show us how to
make love, there is practically nothing here that is calculated to bring a
blush to the cheek of modesty. It is true that from time to time _Captain
le Briquet_ kisses various outlying portions of his "_ange adore_," but it
is all very decorous and his ultimate intentions are strictly respectable.

You see, he was really just playing a game. Big game was his speciality
(Africa) and this one was to be as big as an elephant. It consisted in the
correction of a flaw which he had found in the object of his worship, the
lovely young Widow _Audley,_ who had refused in his very presence to
receive a woman, an old friend of hers, who had preferred love to
reputation. He, the gallant Captain, proposed to amend this error. By his
French methods he would reduce the Widow to such a state of helplessness
that she would consent to become his mistress. The fact that he happened to
be a bachelor, and perfectly free to marry her, should not be allowed to
stand in the way of his scheme. He would explain that the exigencies of his
vocation as a hunter of big game demanded a greater measure of liberty than
was practicable within the bonds of matrimony. He would be "faithful but
free."

In the course of a brief month (the interval between the First and Second
Acts, for we are not permitted to see how he does it) she has become as
putty in his