And since I would not see this shame
Be fastened on to guiltless men,
And hear that there are those who blame
The Editor at Number 10,
As having found the evil ones
And harboured them in his abode
And, after stimulants and buns,
Dragooned them, shouting, down the road
And carried on till two or three--
I say, O spare him; _it was ME!_

A.P.H.

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"Lord Robert Cecil, who has been appointed to take charge of
League of Notions questions at the peace conference."--_Provincial
Paper_.

We don't like this cynicism.

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"There is a 'suave qui peut' at the underground stations during
the busiest hours."--_Provincial Paper_.

Personally we had not noticed it, being more struck (in the tenderer
portions of our anatomy) by the "fortiter in re."

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