The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold,
And the way he came down was awful, I'm told;
But it's nothing to the way one of the Editors comes down on me,
If I crumble my bread-and-butter or spill my tea.
NOEL.
------------ CURIOUS FACTS

If you hold a guinea-pig up by his tail his eyes drop out.

You can't do half the things yourself that children in books do, making
models or soon. I wonder why?--ALICE.

If you take a date's stone out and put in an almond and eat them
together, it is prime. I found this out.--SUB-EDITOR.

If you put your wet hand into boiling lead it will not hurt you if you
draw it out quickly enough. I have never tried this.--DORA.

------------ THE PURRING CLASS

(Instructive Article)

If I ever keep a school everything shall be quite different. Nobody
shall learn anything they don't want to. And sometimes instead of having
masters and mistresses we will have cats, and we will dress up in cat
skins and learn purring. 'Now, my dears,' the old cat will say, 'one,
two, three all purr together,' and we shall purr like anything.

She won't teach us to mew, but we shall know how without teaching.
Children do know some things without being taught.--ALICE.

------------ POETRY
(Translated into French by Dora)

Quand j'etais jeune et j'etais fou
J'achetai un violon pour dix-huit sous
Et tous les airs que je jouai
Etait over the hills and far away.

Another piece of it

Mercie jolie vache qui fait
Bon lait pour mon dejeuner
Tous les matins tous les soirs
Mon pain je mange, ton lait je boire.

------------ RECREATIONS

It is a mistake to think that cats are playful. I often try to get a cat
to play with me, and she never seems to care about the game, no matter
how little it hurts.--H. O.

Making pots and pans with clay is fun, but do not tell the grown-ups. It
is better to surprise them; and then you must say at once how easily it
washes off--much easier than ink.--DICKY.

------------ SAM REDFERN, OR THE BUSH RANGER'S BURIAL

By Dicky

'Well, Annie, I have bad news for you,' said Mr Ridgway, as he entered
the comfortable dining-room of his cabin in the Bush. 'Sam Redfern the
Bushranger is about this part of the Bush just now