If, in a word, you run a show amazing,
With precious little help to see you through it,
Yours is a temper far above all praising,
And--here we reach the point--I've seen you do it.

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"Annie ---- was fined £2 for failing to have the name attached
to apples at a stall in ---- Market. Mr. ---- said the public
were being wilfully kept in ignorance as to what they were
buying."--_Provincial Paper_.

We think the Magistrate was rather pernickety. Most people know an
apple when they see one, but the trouble in these days is to see one
at all.

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THE RULE OF THE ROAD.

I admire all poilus, and especially did I admire Pierre. Once only did
I find him at fault. It was one of my functions on a hospital ship
plying between ---- and ---- to wheel about the more fortunate of the
patients. On the occasion on which I met Pierre he was journeying to
his mother in London and was temporarily engaged in the same pursuit.
I beheld him approaching with his charge and immediately ported my
helm. He bore down on his, keeping to his right, and we collided.

"Keep to your left, you fool!" I cried as the crash came.