are subjected to this searching analysis. I think you will admit that
it is the most sagacious and impressive of them all:--

"If a pig had wings and the legs of a stork
It would damage the quality of its pork,"

Thine, MCDOUGALL POTT.

_Poets' Corner House, Dottyville._

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"As a result of trying to find an escape of gas with a light, a
flat in Westminster was seriously damaged."--_Provincial Paper_.

Serve him right.

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REPORTS.

The other day I was looking through some school reports. Holidays
always bring them forth. You know the kind of thing: History--Is most
diligent but needs concentration; Music--Lacks purposefulness, does
not practise sufficiently; Mathematics--Weak; General Conduct--Might
be better; Conversational French--_Sera plus facile avec plus de
confiance_; Theology--A sad falling off; and so on; and it occurred to
me that it might not be a bad thing if the report system, instead of
stopping with our school-days, pursued us through life. The periodical
perusal of a report, drawn up with as much authority as a scholastic