assurance.

_Tutor_. That being so, I dismiss you with a caution.

[_Exit Undergraduate. The Tutor is left pondering._

* * * * *

ANOTHER RURAL CONFERENCE.

[A Church Dignitary, writing to _The Globe_, suggests that the
rural reform most urgently needed is a better postal system in
the shires.]

[Illustration]

_Radical Reformer_ (_meeting Rural Labourer tramping to London_).
Yours is a typical case, my man. You are a victim of our insensate
Land Laws, or exploded Feudalism. No doubt you are leaving the country
because you could not find employment there?

_Rural Labourer_. 'Tisn't that so much. Old Gaffer always had summat
for a man to do, I can tell ye.

_Radical Reformer_. Glad to hear it, though it's unusual. Then I
suppose it is the intolerable dulness of the country that drives you
away from it.

_Rural Labourer_. 'Tisn't that either. Things be a bit dull in
winter-time, cert'nly. But there--we've a Public, also a Free Reading