the profits arising out of their brain-work, it would be immoral?
_A._ No doubt, as the individuals would benefit at the cost of the
community.
_Q._ Why should a butterman, then, have an absolute right in the
sale of his butter?
_A._ Because butter is butter, and brains are merely brains.
_Q._ And would it not be for the benefit of the community if the
landowner of a freehold were deprived of his rights after a term of
years, and his holding be given to the public?
_A._ Oh dear, no! Land, as RUDYARD KIPLING would say, "is
quite another story!"

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COUNSEL'S MOTTO (_objected to in the Committee Rooms_).--"Absence
makes the fees grow stronger."

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[Illustration: NOT CAUGHT YET!

MASTER LONDON-COUNTY-COUNCIL. "IF I CAN ONLY GET NEAR ENOUGH!!!"]

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OPERATIC NOTES.

[Illustration: "Oh, I mustn't Catch the Speaker's Eye!"]

The first night of the Mixed Italian Opera Season, 1891. We open