(_Souvent femme varie._)
Little girls in June attire,
Grumbling to your governesses,
What is it that you desire--
Chocolates or satin dresses,
Jewels, or a tiny hound,
All your own, to drag around?
Governesses who betray
Little love for your employment,
If a fairy bade you say
What would give you most enjoyment,
Would your fancy not pursue
Unsubstantial shadows too?
"Fleeting joys have little use"--
So, as teachers, you endeavour
In your charges to induce
Virtues which will last for ever;
But, as women, you resent
Anything so permanent!
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"A half followed, which made Vardon dormy 3, and another half at
the 16th, where he made a brilliant recovery after he had hit a
spectator, gave him the match by 3 and 2."
_Times._
The recovery of the spectator wouldn't matter so much.
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"A man who gave the name of James DewTJnamedhiskmhmhfr mhafr awdih
acsih frdw hurst was remanded at Doncaster to-day charged with
attempting to pass a worthless cheque for 30s."--_Liverpool
Express._
As soon as the cashier saw the first eighteen inches of the name at the
bottom of the cheque he had his suspicions.
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[Illustration: THE LAW OF THE AIR.
_"Suburbia" writes:_ "My neighbour says the air is free and nobody can
claim it. Granted. But what I say is--ought my neighbour, considering
the narrowness of his garden, to be allowed to erect what is called a
giant-stride for the amusement of his sons and their young friends? When
will this dilatory Government take such matters in hand?"]
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