A Venetian boy-scout on the Lido
Had sighted a hostile torpedo,
So he cried, "Don't suppoge
You can blow up the Doge;
You must do without him--as we do."

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"WEST OF ENGLAND.--To be Sold, a perfect gentleman's Residence, in
faultless condition and all modern improvements, and a pedigree
Stock Farm of 150 acres adjoining, with possession."--_Daily
Paper_.

We hope the pedigree of the perfect gentleman is included as well as
that of the stock farm.

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PETHERTON AND THE RAG AUCTION.

A letter I received last Friday gave me one of those welcome excuses
to get into closer touch with my neighbour, Petherton, than our daily
proximity might seem to connote. I wrote to him thus:--

DEAR MR. PETHERTON,--Miss Gore-Langley has written to me to say
that she is getting up a Rag Auction on behalf of the Belgian
Relief Fund, and not knowing you personally, and having probably
heard that I am connected by ties of kinship with you, she asked
me to approach you on the subject of any old clothes you may have
to spare in such a cause.