loaned it,
Who afterwards made no bones, but boned it
In the fine Autolycus way;
And though life wasn't a matter vital
He kept with the lake its rasping title,
Which recalls the croak of an amorous frog
Or a siren heard in an ocean fog:
Chagogagog-munchogagog-chabun-agungamog!

* * * * *

THE BUTTERFLY.

"Two thousand cabbage butterflies have been captured by Huntingdon
school-children, but more stern measures for their capture must be
introduced."--_Evening Paper_.

In order to capture the cabbage butterfly the first thing to do is to
interest the creature by giving it a cabbage-leaf to play with. Then
take the kitchen-chopper in the right hand, lift it high and bring it
down with a crash on the third vertebra. Few butterflies repeat any
offence after this is severed.

* * * * *

THE INVINCIBLE ARGENTINE.

"There is a most useful Navy, including two or three
super-Dreadnoughts, and the best-bred racehorses in the
world."--_Irish Times_.

* * * * *

"Further instructions as regards the allowance to householders
which have increased in size will be issued later. The issue of
temporary cards is under consideration."--_Food Control Notice in
"Liverpool Daily Post."_

"Who have increased in size" would be better grammar and just as good
sense.

* * * * *

A LESSON FOR THE NATIONAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT.

Words under a picture in _The Daily Mail_:--

"Chiropodists are attending to the feet of America's new army,
and dentists are paying attention to the teeth."

Whereas in the British Army it might so easily have been the other way
round.

* * * * *

OUR STYLISTS AGAIN.

From _The Tatler_ on the subject of the little Stork, which is the
badge of Capt. Guynemer's squadron:--

"What emblem could, indeed, be more appropriate as well as
beautiful as the bird which is the symbol of Alsace?"

* * * * *

"Wanted, Girls, age 18 to 22, for Jam Jars."--_Manchester Evening
Chronicle_.

As a substitute for sugar, we presume; but wouldn't "Sweet Seventeen"
be even more suitable?

* * * * *

"In almost every part of England and Wales there are now
some 200,000 women who are doing a rea