Peel and a party of _fiends_ were engaged
shooting _peasants_ at Drayton Manor.

It is perhaps scarcely fair to quote too
many blunders from newspapers, which
must often be hurriedly compiled, but
naturally they furnish the richest crop.

The point of a leader in an American
paper was lost by a misprint, which reads
as follows: ``We do battle without shot or
charge for the cause of the right.'' This
would be a very ineffectual battle, and the
proper words were _without stint or change_.

A writer on Holland in one of the
magazines quoted Samuel Butler's well-
known lines--

``A country that draws fifty foot of water,
. . . . . . .
In which they do not live, but go aboard,''

which the printer transformed into

``In which they do not live, but _cows abound_.''


It is of course easy to invent
misprints, and therefore one feels a little
doubtful sometimes with respect to those