Probably one of those "strained relations" we so often read about.

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"My Correspondent's bona fides are above suspicion."--_"The
Clubman" in "The Pall Matt Gazette."_

One good fide deserves another, but of course the more the merrier.

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[Illustration: Keen Motorist _(who has temporarily taken to
push-biking, to leisurely fowl which has brought him low)_. "JUST
YOU WAIT TILL THEY REMOVE THESE PETROL RESTRICTIONS."]

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INVITATION.

If you will come and stay with us you shall not want for ease;
We'll swing you on a cobweb between the forest trees;
And twenty little singing-birds upon a flowering thorn
Shall hush you every evening and wake you every morn.

If you will come and stay with us you need not miss your school;
A learned toad shall teach you, high-perched upon his stool;
And he will tell you many things that none but fairies know--
The way the wind goes wandering and how the daisies grow.

If you will come and stay with us you shall not lack, my dear,