On this autumnal gale
Unto all wayfarers is speaking
In praise of rest and ale."

Then bless the man who puts a sign
Above his wide door's beam,
And bless the hop-root, fruit and vine,
For still I dream my dream,
Where, as the flushing East turns pinker
And tardy day begins,
I take the road like any tinker
And paint the signs of inns.

* * * * *

"INSTANT DEMAND FOR WARNINGS.

"MAYORS OF LONDON MOVING."

_Evening News_.

They ought to set a better example.

* * * * *

"Certain people seem to have misread the statement last week
that flour would be reduced 1s. 11/2d. that flour would be
reduced to 1s. 11/2d. but that that that flour would be reduced
to 1s. 111/2d. but that amount or somewhere about it would be
taken off the former price."--_Rossendale Free Press_.