I, for my part, admire
The snug domestic fire,
The comfortable hearth, the glowing coals,
Nor in the least aspire
To emulate those strong heroic souls
Who get up while it's dark
And haste to chill ablutions in Hyde Park.
It can't be very nice
To break the solid ice
And, like a walrus, plunge into the deep;
Then jump out in a trice,
Dissevering the icicles as you leap,
Even though the after-glow
Of virtue melts the circumjacent snow.
And we of milder mould,
And we who're growing old,
Wish they would wash, like other folk, elsewhere;
It makes us feel quite cold
To think of them refrigerating there;
We shiver in our beds;
Our pitying molars chatter in our heads.
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"THE DOVER PATROL.
VINDICTIVE MEN AS PROGRAMME SELLERS."--_Times_.
After what men have suffered from the flag-day sex, no wonder they get
vindictive when they have a chance of retaliation.
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"The causes of the engineers' strike in London are a little
obscure, but the stoppage of the ten minutes allowed for tea
before the 47-hour day was introduced brought the men out from
one motor works."--_Provincial Paper_.
The great objection to a day of this length is that it gives so little
scope for overtime.
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"The Association for the Betterment of the Highlands and
Islands of the Free Church of Scotland have prepared and
presented to the Secretary for Scotland a memorandum on the
reconstruction of the Highlands."--_Scots Paper_.
We have always thought that judicious thinning of the more congested
views would help the tourist.
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"The men who had watched the daily search set up a cheer,
ffi---- ----fl."--_Sunday Paper_.
We hope the cheer was more hearty than it appears at first sight.
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