[Illustration:  THE RELUCTANT PEGASUS.

A YOUNG SPRING POET HAS TROUBLE WITH HIS MOUNT.]

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    CANE OR BIRCH?

    “House Porter wanted, to live in or out, able to manage
    beating apparatus.—­Apply, Stating wages required, to
    Headmaster, ----- school.”--Local Paper.

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    “The total cost of the British delegation to the Peace
    Conference at Paris from December, 1918, to 31st September was
    L503,368.”—­Liverpool Paper.

But it is only fair to say that in the last month they seem to have put in a bit of overtime.