Well, as I've said and said again,
'Tis Fate (Kismet), and, should it frown,
We Faithful have to take it lying down--
And yet, by Allah, how I loathe this train!

O. S.

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"A subaltern friend of mine landed at Gibraltar for a few hours, and he
was anxious to be able to say that he had been to Spain. So he walked
along the Isthmus to Ceuta, where the British and Spanish sentries
faced one another, and directly the Spanish soldier turned his head he
hopped quickly over into Spain. Then the sentry turned round, and he
hopped back again even more quickly."--_Daily Sketch_.

Those of our readers who have walked from the Gibraltar frontier to Morocco
and back, like the above subaltern, know that it takes some doing.

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"JAMES PHILLIPS, 16, was charged with doing damage to the extent of £4
10s. at a refreshment shop in Hackney belonging to Peter Persico. As he
was kept waiting a little time he broke a plate on the table; then he
put a saucer under his heel and broke it. When remonstrated with he
broke 10 cups and saucers by throwing them at partitions and enamelled
decorations, and overturned a marble table, the top of which he
smashed."--_The Times_.

No doubt he was incited to these naughty deeds by the line, very popular in