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"BLACK CATS' STRIKE THREAT."
_Heading in a Sunday Paper of a report of a demand made by
Viennese clerks for doubled salaries._
For "CATS'," read "COATS'." _O_ the diff! as WORDSWORTH said.
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"Retriever Wanted; steady good worker: retrieve feather or
fur, land or water."--_Provincial Paper_.
The exile of Amerongen could do with one of this breed.
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"The act of the donor suggests the lines:
"'How far doth that little candle throw its beams
On like a good deed in a naughty world.'"
_Daily Graphic_.
The author's name is not given, but we do not think he has improved
much on SHAKSPEARE.
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THE YEOMAN TRANSFORMED.
[In accordance with the new Territorial organisation some
famous Yeomanry Regiments are to become Motor Machine-Gun
Units.]
Can a horseman turn from his heart's desire at the stroke of a
statesman's pen?
Can we learn to fight from a motor-car--we who were mounted men?
In a petrol-tank and a sparking-plug shall we strive to put our
trust,
And hang our spurs as a souvenir to gather reproachful rust?
Shall we never again ride knee to knee in the pomp of squadron line,
With head-ropes white as a mountain drift and curb chains all
a-shine?
Will they dawn no more, those glorious days when the world seemed
all our own,
Who rode as scouts on an errant quest, alive, alert, alone?
Can a man be made by a motor-car as a man is made by a horse,
With strength in his back and legs and arms, and a brain of swift
resource?
We cared for our mounts before ourselves, their thirst before our
thirst;
Shall we come to learn, with the same content, to think of an
engine first?
Grousing enough.
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