Full many a fair young thing I've seen displaying A sympathetic pallor on her cheek And wonder in her eye, when I've been saying How almost every day in Salonique You jazzed with me on brinks of precipices; But when I talk to-day they cannot fail To think of you in town and murmur, "This is A likely sort of tale."
To take, without one thought of evil plotting, Even without one last protesting kick, Thus kindly to somnambulistic trotting-- Oh, James, old pal, it was a dirty trick; To show the yarns I'd told of you and written (In letters home) were not entirely swank At very least, I think, you might have bitten The policeman at the Bank.
"The Oxford University crew arrived at Henley yesterday for a week's practice. The Cambridge president, Mr. E.A. Berrisford, accompanied the crew as spare man."--_Provincial Paper._
"The Government, said Mr. Bonar Law, had not received any intimation from the Netherlands Government that Holland had decided to keep the ex-Kaiser in Curaçoa."--_Evening Standard._
"ESSEX and SUSSEX BORDERS.--To be Let, well-built Mansion, surrounded by fine gardens, situate in one of the finest parts of this delightful country."--_Daily Paper._
But it must be rather a nuisance to cross the Thames every time you want to go from the Essex to the Sussex wing.
TYPICAL COSTUME FOR AN EARNEST WORKER IN THE CAUSE OF CHARITY.]
[Illustration: BEHIND THE SCENES IN CINEMA-LAND.
THE RAGE EXHIBITED BY AN AUTHOR WHILE HAVING ONE OF HIS NOVELS FILMED IS UTILISED BY THE INTELLIGENT MANAGER OF THE FILM COMPANY FOR A NEW "THREE-REEL COMIC," ENTITLED "HOW AUTHORS WORK."]
"These want paying," said Suzanne as she bounced into my nominally sacred den at a strictly prohibited hour. Therewith she thrust a _dossier_ of tradesmen's bills into my feebly-resisting hands, and bang went an idea I had been tenderly nursing since breakfast.
"But I can't spend the rest of the morning writing cheques," I protested. "I'm engaged just now on a most important article."
"With your eyes shut," commented Suzanne, stooping to a grossly unfair insinuation. "I must tell Cook to make the breakfast coffee stronger in future; then you might manage to--"
"Look here, Suzanne, you've been married to me long enough to know my methods of work. I can't begin an article until I've got the whole thing shaped in my mind, and to do that I must shut out everything else."