hem
On the black drum;
Priests had many a mass to handle,
Nuestra Senora many a candle,
And many a lass grew old in praying
For a sight of those topsails homeward swaying--
But it's late to wait till a girl is bride of
A Jack who won't be back this side of
Kingdom Come.

But little they care down there, down there,
Hid from time and tempest by the jade-green waters;
They have loves a-plenty down at fathom twenty,
Pearly-skinned silver-finned mer-kings' daughters.
At the gilt quarter-ports sit the Dons at their sports,
A-dicing and drinking the red wine and white,
While the crews forget their wrongs in the sea-maids' songs
And dance upon the foc'sles in the grey ghost light.

PATLANDER.

* * * * *

"REMARKABLE OVAL SCORING." _Evening Paper Contents Bill._

We have made some remarkable scores of that shape ourselves in the
past, but we never boast about them.

* * * * *

"He believed that the English pronounced in the streets of
London in, say, 200 years' time, will be much different, if not
unintelligible, to the man of to-day."--_Daily Paper._

Just like the English in some of our newspapers.

* * * * *

"The Secretary of State for India is not _persona grata_ either to
the British House of Commons or to the British public. That is the
old-fashioned English of it."--_Bangalore Daily Post._

It would be interesting to see the old-fashioned Latin of it.

* * * * *

"Will any Lady Recommend Country Home of the best where 2 precious
Poms can be happy and would be looked after for 6 weeks? Surrey
preferred."--_Morning Paper._

Think of their disgust at finding themselves boarded out in Sussex or
Kent.

* * * * *

"Young Hungarian Lady with English and German knolidgement wants
sob with English or American Organization."--_Pester Lloyd._

Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Sob and you sob alone.

* * * * *

A WAY OUT OF THE PRESENT UNREST.

"A penny for your thoughts," I said to Kathleen.

"I like that," said Kathleen indignantly. "A penny was the market
value of my thoughts in 1914. Why should butter and cheese and reels
of cotton go up more than double and my thoughts st