To supplement our trooper's skill in saddle, pluck and dash,
You must have more manoeuvres, JOHN, and--if needs be,--_more cash!_
Then away away we'll go
With a tally rally-ho!
And never be afraid to face the strongest, fiercest foe.

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[Illustration: JOURNALISM IN FRANCE. JOURNALISM IN ENGLAND. (A
Contrast.)]

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HAD HE SUCCEEDED!

(_A POSSIBLE PAGE IN FRENCH HISTORY THAT PROBABLY WILL NEVER BE
WRITTEN._)

The General-President had been established at the Elysée for
some three months, when his _aides-de-camp_ found their labours
considerably increased. At all hours of the day and night they were
called up to receive persons who desired an interview with their chief
and master. As they had received strict orders from His Highness
never to appear in anything but full uniform (cloth of gold tunics,
silver-tissue trousers, and belts and epaulettes of diamonds) they
spent most of their time in changing their costume.

"I am here to see anyone and everyone," said His Highness; "but I look
to you, Gentlemen of the Ring, I should say Household, to see that I
am disturbed by only those who have the right of _entrée_. And now,