"I ain't gwine nowhere skasely; I'll be busy near dis rail.
You wun't tempt me wid de butter--or der powder--on yo' tail.
Good-bye, Brer Fox, take keer yo' cloze,
For dis is de way de worril goes;
Some goes up en some goes down.
_You_'ll get ter de bottom all safe en soun'!
I'll watch yo' 'strategy' wid int'rest, now en den,
En--well, I'll try ter _look_, des as _frightened_ as I ken!"

* * * * *

The House of Lords Committee of Privileges decided that Captain
FORESTER's action in the Barnard Peerage case was a Vane attempt.
"The chance," said the _Times_, "of such a prize as Raby Castle, with
£60,000 a-year, is likely to tempt a man to think his arguments and
claims are better than they really are." Raby Castle on the brain
would soon become a sort of Rabies.

* * * * *

HAMLET IN HALF AN HOUR.

(_PREPARED FOR THE HALLS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SUGGESTIONS OF MR.
PLUNKET'S COMMITTEE._)

SCENE--_An open space outside Elsinore. View of the Palace and
the Battlements. HAMLET discovered talking to the Ghost._

_Ham._ And is it really within thy power to show me illustrations to
the story that has so much interested me?