From an interview with the Superintendent of Regent's Park:--

"'People seem surprised,' he said, 'when I tell them that within a few
minutes' walk of Baker Street Station, and the incessant din of
Marylebone Road, such birds as the cuckoo, flycatcher, robin and wren
have reared their young.'"--_Observer._

To hear of the cuckoo bringing up its own family in any circumstances was,
we confess, a little bit of a shock.

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"'Idling, my dear fellow!' was Mr. Jerome K. Jerome's decisive answer
to my question: 'What do you most like doing at holiday-time?'

'But if, and only when, I am really driven to exertion, let me have a
horse between my legs, a pair of oars, and a billiard-table, and I ask
nothing more of the gods.'"--_Answers._

The next time Mr. JEROME indulges in this performance may we be there to
see.

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[Illustration: THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH.

WAR-WEARY WORLD (_at the Jamboree_). "I WAS NEARLY LOSING HOPE, BUT THE
SIGHT OF ALL YOU BOYS GIVES IT BACK TO ME."]

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