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Dim darlings drinking on the

soft aca swell,

Shm starlings sinking round a

big branza bell

The last long look at a willow

winding wen

That went a shouting seaward

out of conquering ken. Violins on velvet and violets

in the grass,

Heigh, ho, honey, let you

linger with your lass, While the wall-walla warbles

where the windy wends,

Underneath the umbrella that

a unicorn extends.

Love wist to pursue. Across the margent of the

world I Red,

And troubled the gold gateways

of the stars,

Smiting for ehelter on their

clanged bars,

Fretted to dulcet jars - And silvern chatter the pale ports o'the moon,

Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, Iver my heart alone, She is at rest.

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Peace, peace, the cârmot hear> Lyre or sonnet,

Oxford Book of English Verse is wenches, lakes and falls, old songs Variety is the spice of life Eternal beer is, I would rather awallow it than about as nest perfect accuracy in this and customs (for Lakeland wool and all-round perfection offers none. Fone little pill Speaking generally, matter as possible." No question compel enthusiasm and dithyrambics | The days must seem infernally loug, I find that going to sleep when I feel of accuracy arises, not even of per-and eloquence from a scarecrow in when all goes well and nothing wrong, sleepy, and staying awake when I'm fecf accuracy." It is purely a mattera bar-hat) but I was interrupted by As we are bilt, we require compar not, suits my complexion well enough. of taste. The typographical form (1) man wanting the advi.sons and contrasts It is necessary It might suit yours. Try it, No that caught his fancy is printer's

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to his happiness that the able-bodied extra charge. Every purchaser of taste. The poet would not be interest-

athlete should be able to enjoy feeling this paper is entitled to use my pre- ed, except where he might objent

knows scomful of his weakling tutor, and that scriptions gratis. Ta to such mechanical interruptions:

Professor Highbrow should be able

The 'nan advises threatening his continuity of sense.

Constituto feel contempt for the Muddied or BREATHING, ma to breathe. It entirely depends upou the poem

Oaf Suppose, by a determined

through the nose! Is how it should be bet; and for those

exercise of the highest imaginativa there some other way! Well, well. readers who know what a sonnet is,

fight, that you could have the muscle We live and learn.. I see he thinks it should not be necessary by typo so that all the ideas fed away out and physique of the one and the there are people who breathe through graphical tried to call attention to of my head, and when I got back to highly trained brains of the other, their mouths, and he admonishes the details of its construction. Ithe job my intellect simply baulked that you could beat all the athletic them. "The mouth is to eat with have dashed off an imprompta sunnet and jibbed like a Chins pony and re-records and do Einstein ans and talk with. The nose is to breathe Declaim that properly, and you get beré to show what that critic thinks fused to go. I went out and had correctly in Four head while with." I thought it was to smell with, all the charm of poems that mean the only way of setting a sonnet stimulant, but it was no use. I pas playing the piano like Pader- but doubtless he knows. Personally, nothing in particular, and say itu. (Even alignment of initials is, in my the job aside till evening, and then ewski or the fiddle like Elman. I use my mouth for drinking, and my There may even be people who see a view, the best_way...)

hanged if my Demon would consent would you be happy! You would nose for puffing smoke down, and meaning in it, as in Francis Thomp Soaneteer. Who would have to be interested in anything but anot. You would be so intolerably breathe just any old how, in between, son's Hound of Heaven.?.

printed right pamphlet about Pink Pills that came conceited that you would want to be if you get my meaning. But I per The ardent verses teeming from to me through the post.

"Fear wist not to evade, a8- worshipped as Nero did, and sufferceive that I must hasten on, and skip your pen

should you all the jealousies and aches of the a bit of this charming work, which, A SERIOUS laugh, when pills are victim of folia de grandeur. In any by the way, seems to have been mentioned? Really, casc society, as now constituted, work especially written for as residents oat some of you have shave to exterminate you in self here. He says all Europeans in the perverted sense of humour. Pink defence. You would have no friends. East cat too much, especially meat and petticoats for pallid flappers-there You would be dam lonesome.

fat. I know one man that does, but might be a larking joke somewhere

So much for the he's away just nok, or I'd send him WHERE' pillman's philosophy. the book, I see the pill author thinks And Any Other Fashion earns

THE CATCH! Now for his bons that when we live far in Asia we should fides. You will ob give farinaceous foods the preference. Indent lines 2, 3, 6 and 7; they here we touch a serious matter.serve that his book advises me to That's easy to remember, isn't it, like marmalade got to do with the Hound Dulcet jars" What has jam or Are in the Octere; in Sestette alter-Why are people pale? Why must Be Well and Keep Well, and it offers his own alliterative pill slogan of Heaven? And what are the they consume pills? This book, six simple rules by which I may do Farinaceous Foods for Fools Far in "clanged bars of star gateways? Ltd.

The indentations of the premier Hobbies and Health; a book on it. If I do keep well, what becomes Asis. Copyright. If it means mush, Make Einstein drunk, then ask him Being Well and keeping Well" of his pill business, his pillular profits? I'll beg to be excused. Give me my I can think of no other who could So that Construction, and. I beg to which somebody has been kind enough if we all keep well, his sales will good old chop, or sausage, or bacon guess an answer-not even poor to send me, promises to satisfy my stop and he will have to find some I am, enthusiastically, a Baconian. Francis Thompson himself. In a Your Rime Scheme's kept the craving for knowledge. Barely other way of enriching his own blood. Bat now we come to a statement much simpler form whence you would Reader's eyes before. glancing at its pretty cover, I open I cannot believe he really wants which-but see next paragrant. It not think the sense could leak, Oscar Indent for ems the Saalit. I read. I consider the state us to keep well, not all the time. is too important for the lag end of one. Wilde has a

conplet, pray ments I find within. I really do It doesn't seem natural or likely

thing called "Requies- Your sonnet typographic ly consider them. And as usual with So I scan his six simple rules with

The pillalian scribe cat"-which supports Tolstoy's ◄ OF BOOZE. is then O.K.

almost every book I read, I find some suspicion. There is sure to be

settles a vered con- claim remarkably. No, Emily, there is, things I feel bound to question, to a catch somewhere, as when Dr. sentence, crisp, eloquent, and con troversy with one

"Tread lightly, she is near as you say, no er- doubt. Perhaps this cantankerous- Canthic advised me to stop smoking elusive. He says "It is necessary to

Under the snow, planation of the wondness itself is a pink proof that I nced my pipe, and take to cheroots. "Swastika in the Encyclopedia pale pill.

drink, in a hot country, a larger Dr. Cantle was just amount of fluid than any one requires Britannica; but your friend is quite

The book begins PIPE like this pill man; he wrong in telling you that it is a

with that hoary SHOKING. A had his six rules also. of the village boozer at Home, and in more temperate climes." I think corruption of swash-sticker" a re-

fraud, which some

His first was to avoid how much he required, and when I lation of swash-buckler." It is

reflect that it is necessary for me to made up chicfy of two Sanscrit

drink, right here, a larger amount words, r well and asti being, and the

than he required, a glow of holy en- thing itself is a religious symbol in

thusiasm suffuses my ruddy counten

All my life's buried here, Tibet. However, Hongkong is not

ance, and full of good resolation I cry, How lovely! cries some thoughtless

Heap earth upon it." Tibet, and if you don't mind I'd

Boy! One pièces more fluid." reader. But is it? If she can hear rather not discuss the damthing any more. I find I cannot suffer fools

There is a great deal the daisies grow, she can surely hear as gladly as I used to do.

LET US LEAVE more in this book, but the lyre. It is not true that he vezes his heart alone he is obviously I-do not know what philosophic docbt is most discoverable altogether. I was up-country in IT AT THAT. I didn't read Any MARKET manner of man is Frank when it is applied to things we know, Ceylon for several weeks, once, and pill man might only spoil it, with some nonsense to some other companion more after that. The easing it by sponting this jingling. Granger, of University or feel sure we know. The things my heart didn't go till I got back to eccentric definition of Buid, maybe. What he really wants to say is some College, Nottingham, we are most cocksure of are our Colombo.. His second rule is not to Plain logic does me. Beer is fiaid, thing like this: whether he is a leamed professor or greatest diddlers. That maxim is change about from pipe to cigar, or merely a gatekeeper; but I do think one of them. It is an unnatural cigarette to pipe etc, but to stick to therefore fluid is beer. If Hobbies that before he writes another letter ideal; an ambition against the laws what you are used to. How does that and Health go together, as in the title to the Times Literary Supplement, of nature, which insists on the law cover my case? I smoke two or of this Fill Brochure, I've found mine. like one he has in the issue for May that if you win on the swings you three cigarettes before breakfast, 3 And what's more and forby, gin I had 19, he should have hus, brains taken must expect to kes on the roand-pipe all day, cigars after meals, and the wealth And Carnegie-but To any understanding person that out, and dusted, and darned, and the about. If you grow chrysanthe any old kind of tobacco that comes as I believe you know the rest. Let me tells it all-all, that is, up-to state. hinge meaded. He was up in Cam- mums for quantity of blooms, you a cumshaw. That's what I'm used to say that though I abandoned the For the understanding person knows berland, which is the finest county of must sacrifice size. If you insist on "Bule III. Smoke the same quantity hints on health I glanced through the well that these things are always to the finest country, and at St. John's full foliage, you must be satisfied every day." How do men as silly as testimonials by grateful pill swalbe continued in our next.

Was I sad ? in the Vale he heard the village with less fruit. If you work for old Candlie get such a reputation? lowers. These are always worth

Felt I rain?. schoolboys as they went a pace-wealth, you must part with leisure. How can you smoke the same quantity reading, being full of human interest egging, for Fasche-eggs, and singing If you devote your life to poetry on holidays as on busy days, on a

Now I'm glad. stuff. One that caught my eye par-:

I'm wed again the Pasche-egg song, which is, as he your children must go without shoes winter day as on a summer day, on a t'cularly was a heart cry from an suspected, very ancient. I do not If you bee me adept in physical fine day as out a wet day? In certain editor, whom the pull professor men. For real thoughts, burning for ex- quarrel with him for suggesting that sports, your intellect mest suffer. weather tobacco combusta more I ought to know all the well-known

tions as a well-known" journalist. Fression, for sense and sentiments whose accurate transference is desired, Shakepere took the character of If you become as intellectual as I slowly than in other kinds of weather.ones, but I never heard before of Mr, if for any reason prose appear in- Falstaff from that old song, though itam, you must have a misshapen and Besides, there is a longest day and a is far fetched; but I do quarrel with sickly body like mine. You cannot shortest day in every year. It can-A. W. Webb, editor of the Lincoln adequate though that it cannot be him for his carelessness as an observer. combine Sandow and Shakspere under not be done. His fourth rule was shire Chronicle. Masices! I don't them is vers libre the safer, wiser notes when I awoke, I have forgotten the farmer's wife controls the purse Mammon. You cannot have the That's about the only rule I don't talks just like one. One day," says with which her husband goes to Kes mens sana (if that means profound quarrel with, as I usually smoke on he, "I was all keen for work, the exa Sometimes our news wick on a Saturday and comes back intellectual attainments) and the my back myself. But his fifth mile, too limp to write a stroke or even papers are so in- in the gracious phrase of the country corpore sano as well. I am not sure now, is the same of asitinity. Do think. Never had duties bera so formative wonder how they can possibly do it

that side-only market drunk Was that you ought to want it. It is not smoke when over-tired. What harassing as they became then." I a non-understanding unreasonable, like the young man's is smoking for? How can you rest know, I know just how he felt, poor for the money. One of them recently dabbler in phrases? Where's the ideal woman. He wants her to be without smoking? The more tired fellow. "Frequently I could not told us, for instance, that the" abiding graciousness of the phrase he gives, beautiful, and clever, and virtuous, I am the more I rest and the more even articulate the words I had in fame in history" of Sir J. J. Thomson in his bungling and entirely mis- and accomplished, and sympathetic, smoke. I was wrong.. I admit is mind." Editors. often have that July is rather late "rests on the fact that he is the leading way, as that of the country- an interesting companion and aThat rule wasn't the supreme limit symptom, I notice. It's the, late] THE Cuckoo in the year to -an-

man who split the atom." Our side? The countryside phrase is, capable housekeeper these inter of possible foolishness. His sixth "seemed to completely give out." nights. Mr. Webb's nervous system nounce that une has informative contemporary went on: Fard the Cuckoo, but I heard it this

and now you will perceive that it has alia. He could lengthen the list of and last has it beaten. "Do not That split infinitive is evidence that "Millions of atoms could be placed a certain graciousness of tolerance requirements for you. I cannot. It smoke for an hour before going to he is a real journalist, right enough: week. It was in one of those dreapas in a line on the diameter of a pin head. in it, "market merry." "He was is so long ago, that I've forgotten bed." If there is any one hour in It is gratifying to note that he took a mine. I not only beard the well. Physicists tried to separate one stow not drunk only market merry." some of them. It never occurs to which tobacco is most necessary, and bottle or two of the pulsand Known cry, but I saw the bird. and to determine its composition. Joseph This Nottingham University fellow him to ask what right a pimply-faced, tastes best, it is the hour before goingslept splendidly at nights. At pre- Listened to an haran from it, in John Thomson succeeded in making obscured, buried completely out of flap-eared, bullet headed, sawny, to bed. I smoke after going to bed, of which it gave me its op zion of man an atom disintegrate into particles sight, the idea. But what could you half-baked, very ordinary young man course, as all real smokers do (I have sent my journalistic duties occupy me Bind. It said that tumour that it called electrons, which he photo-expect of a man, pretending to, be has to such an ideal, much less to such a hookah with a long tube, to as not frequently twelve hours a day, yet T

another bird to lay its eggs for graphed, weighed, and measured was false. So was the legend of An electron, he says, is about one finding but what a "bor hat" is. comething not too moble, not too say the last couple of pipes, after one Twelve hours a day for the Lincoln- interested in the pasche-eggers, not a prize from the gods. if he gets to burn holes in the sheets) but I must a rarely fagged, and my nerves are The young cuckoo outing the others hundred thousandth part of an atom. The box bat, says he, "whatever that good For human nature's daily food," has yawned, and remarked that one shire Chronicle, and spare time spent full of energy." They must be From the nest. Alvention, said And it would take hundreds of millions may be," is probably s later addi-that does not henpeck him, and is supposes one ought to be thinking of The Cuckoo. The f is that the of atome to make a line across 4tion. Here is the verse of the song less, ugly than be is himself, he is a turning in, are the most important The readers of that chredicle, no in writing pill puffs, is proof enough. chinmon birds stea nests, in sixpence. Such is their energy, that as he gives it.

hich we usually hardly one egg electrons are hurled out of an atom

mighty fortunate young man. If pipes of the day, unless you count the he should have the corpore asno, first ones, just after breakfast. How doubt, are to be congratulated... let him be satisfied. If he have the ever, this is a digression which I hope mens sana, he is satisfied:

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ADVERSARIA.

being grater and gi of families, od so got round it we There are ^ET „Files with

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puerile Latin, prone the kinds of tobacco which affect to pale puns, prcmul-heart and palse action-a silly rule, gated long ago to be the delight and because, of course, when you cannot delectation of a procession of parrots. get your favourite brand you must A fine maxim, and a finer ideal," smoke something, or go mad. I've says the pill author. Now anybody smoked every kind there is in all the can be sceptical and doubtful about world. I think, including those thin, the things he doesn't know, and cannot black, native Ceylon cheroots, which know. The value of scepticism and have the effect of stopping the heart

We were wed.

I was glad. She is dead. I am sad.

deal more, but as I oraitted to take So in Cumberland," he writes, "one hat. You cannot serve God and not to smoke on an empty stomach doubt that he is a real person. H.medium. In this wise::

most of it.

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limitation at a speed of 160,000 miles a second." the story You must remember that there are usurping many men who laugh about the story ng to bear of Jonah and the whale who swallow of lies that sort of tripe hungrily and without. stands to question. To the joumalist who wrote ther birds it; it no doubt sounded quite all our young, right, that Prof. Thomson should they are photograph and weigh and measure Another an umpty-millionth part of a pin-head idas your travelling at 100,000 miles a second

ever Buch

J.

For the next that steps in

In old hospot, you see, He's a galland old fellow In every degree, ** With a hump on his back; And he wears a box-hat, And all his delight.

Is in drinking mould ale Chorus after each verse,

With a riddle a for the ray, For the riddle I doin day.

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GETTING THE

BEST.

Tolstoy said that noth you will pardon We were talking TOTOY ing-has been and in verse that could not This pill book tells were we not, of pills! me that "the in

be better said in prose. Let us says the pill,

sound mind in a

BAYING

who possesses a OP SLEEP, author, begin with I thought of this when I came again sleep. If you want to across a line of Chesterton's that a sound body is equipped to get all that be well, sleep regularly and liberally, local poet admires :— is best out of life." Notion 'the Isn't he clever? That sounds to me

Dim drums throbbing, in the Khills half heard. ASA wording. It is artful. If I am right just like saying, “If you want to be

What can they know of the

anguish of boredom, Exquisite worry and aching.

anxiety,

Whose fate does not call them

to write for the Press 1. Doom 1.

Sure as death looms the hour

of going to Press,

And the inky-faced printer

he clamous for copy." Even for my Adversaria While the ruthless clock ticks

the swift minutes away And I with 's costive" brain

stare at the paper The blanky-black paper

What can they know of the

heart's satisfaction,

The Peace that passeth all

understanding,

If they have not to write ferr

the Press? Redemption!

Somehow the space that was

seemingly endless, * ---

The blanky-blank, paper that

was as a nightmare,

Is coverd with staff that the

· paper will pay for

And foolish folic read to pass

sway time

The hungry compositor at last

has been antifed

The machinery's clanking he

clamours no more.

My fountain-pen's fling in the

cobwebby camer,...?

My hat's on my head and I'm

running downstairs, Free!

in saying that there is no such person, rich, have plenty of money." All A good example for the cynical an- the North Certainly if he did it he deserves an "Mould ale" is "mulled ale," and more right in saying that no one can before midnight, and so on, would not And so on. The last part is ambiguous, and cannot be, I am certainly still that bankum about the beauty sleep alyst. What is a dam dram, anyway 1 wk, which abiding fame in history" or stapid.

if you do not know what mulled ever get "all that is best out of life" kid a simple child nowadays. Bes like "the gallant hound the wolf had Anybody, no matter ale is, may Heaven, forgive you your It is cheek to expect more than some faring men have their sleep broken by alain," where you have to take the ble to tell **AMATEUR how untrained, has a neglected education and opportuni- of it, our fair share of it. A dyspeptic watches and other irregularities, and sense from the context? The pleasant 11 men get Carrics. dight to say whether ties. It has been stirred with red degenerate (with Capital) can get they are not unhealthy men. I never tickle of alliteration seems to be the they like a thing or hot poker, and had spices dropped in, lot of it, and does, But now let us go to sleep before half past one or one and only explanation, for the line and looks not; but people should not jump in and stood on the hob while ancient reason together. How can anybody two; I sleep my steady nine hour or does not add materially to the picture. weetheart. with criticisms without but making ditties were sung by true Englishmen who is perfect all round, mind and so, and I take a nap on the tram, or And evoking pictures, helping us to , it is so. sure of their ground. I heard of one that were never conquered by Roman body, get all the best out of life at my desk, or in church, as occasion see things we have overlooked, is the ling ont case where a lady was sure that certain or Norms or Pict heats-for lines attributed to Buckling were by

It is easily demonstrated imposable, may offer or require, and yet I have duy of poems. There is or was a texture as posm. It is paint, I was intending One of the best things in life is the never taken a pink pill of a pale pill in school that said a poem poed have no sad human, and trus-nothing 10

·Top know

he kissing Herfick. She was wrong. When it

and the comes to technicalities like printing,

INTERRUPTIONS.

's minds, the thing gets wome. A Government staff, SOUM,

wwky nor cadet says there 16.0

GODS way of Cagl

ida grent typesetting a serinet, and the

For a day and a half may the Devil take printers" ink I'm he that is free and away Now, Freckon that is as pretty in

to the sea.

to write you first spell of peace after med all my long life, nor felt the need of it, messing so it have beauty? What puzzle anybody, nothing to wim some rent five pain. Unless you have "hown nain I'd rather jake s. bottle of beer than a then, is portic beauty

fing | you cannot apprecia the delight of boz of píla anyday, and thern Se-no, thyme,ć allikat inns, wide not having it. How "py food comparing them for bulk. Yet I tickling of the “bu

thout suffering finger 1, mean it seriuosly. Big as a pint of] this ?

Rhythm, stand, such as you get in the

pleasant tangle of poetic technique. "Boyut

If

so, how's by way of a rhyme to terligne,

you next Week.