[Illustration: _Energetic Motor-Cyclist._ "WHY THE DEUCE DON'T YOU SIT
STILL? YOU'LL HAVE US OVER IN A MINUTE."]

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40-1920 A.D.

CALIGULA the man (quite mad, of course)
Conferred the consulship upon his horse.

Caligula the colt (a trifle saner)
Makes kings of jockey, purchaser and trainer.

Sanity counts; I raise my cup of massic
Not to the earlier but the later "classic."

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=Journalistic Modesty.=

"I was his [Irving's] guest regularly at all Lyceum first nights for
a whole quarter of a century.... He delighted in the company of
third-rate people."

_C.K.S. in "The Sphere."_

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[Illustration: _The Master._ "TCHA! THIS BACON TASTES SIMPLY BEASTLY."