s when the vines are trailing fair.

Good gentlemen, the prologue! Here's a programme most attractive:
She's songs for everyone o' you--oh, rare the tunes and rich!
Here's hackneyed _Devon Harbours_ (but the pollock's biting active);
Here's _Evening_ (rise in Hampshire); here's _The Roller on the Pitch_;
And music in the lot o' them--it doesn't matter which.

We've long _White Roads o' Brittany_ and pretty _Wayside Posies_,
_Blue Bays_ (beneath the undercliff--the white sails crawling by);
We've _Rabbits in a Hedgerow_ (how the bustling Clumber noses);
We've _Grouse Across the Valley_ (crashing crumpled from the sky);
And magic's in each note of her--it doesn't matter why.

Here's _Salmon Songs_ and _Shrimping Songs_, according to your pocket;
Here's _Hopping_ (with a lurcher--twice as useful as a gun
For the fat young August pheasants that'll never live to rocket);
Here's a jolly _Song o' Golf Balls_; here's the tune of
_Cubs that Run_;
We've something for each Jack o' you, for every mother's son.

Good gentlemen, good gentlemen, we crave your kind permission!
Here's Summer, at your service, and she'd sing you on your ways
The marching songs of morning and the Road that fits the Vision,
The mellow songs of twilight and the gold September haze;
God rest you all, good gentlemen, and send you pleasant days.

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Illustration: THE VOGUE FOR WEARING FANCY DRESS THREATENS TO INVADE
ORDINARY SOCIAL LIFE.

TENNIS AT THE VICARAGE.

A JOLLY BATHING PARTY.

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Illustration: OUR DEAR OLD FRIEND, THE FOREIGN SPY (CUNNINGLY DISGUISED
AS A GOLFER), VISITS OUR YOUNGEST SUBURB ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN QUEST
OF FURTHER EVIDENCE OF OUR LETHARGY, GENERAL DECADENCE AND FALLING
BIRTH-RATE. HE GETS A SHOCK AND AT ONCE TELEGRAPHS TO HIS
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF URGING THAT THE CONQUEST OF THE BRITISH ISLES BE
UNDERTAKEN BEFORE THE PRESENT GENERATION IS MANY YEARS OLDER.

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Illustrations: THE INTRUSIONS OF THE CINEMA.

[Jones, secretary to the South Sea Islanders' Regeneration Society, who
is suffering from nerves, is recommended a very remote sea-coast retreat
for his summer holiday. With his wife and family he tries it. The
manager of a certain cinema company likewise chooses this particular
spot for his company to rehearse their powerful new drama, "Down am