ommittee which will supervise and
co-ordinate naval and military aviation. For him, as for that other
_Ariel_, "there's more work." The same is now true of Colonel LOCKWOOD
who, since the opening of the Session, has been in a condition of
suspended animation. The Kitchen Committee, in the opinion of many
Members the most important of all the Committees, had not been set up,
and consequently could not elect a Chairman. How Members have lived
through more than a week without any visible means of securing
subsistence it is not for me to reveal. Suffice it to say that no case
of absolute starvation has come to my notice. To-day all is well. The
Kitchen Committee is again in being, and "Uncle Mark" has once more been
appointed Minister of the Interior (unpaid, except by the gratitude and
affection of his fellow-Members). Fresh responsibilities have now been
thrust upon him. This afternoon it fell to him, as temporary Leader of
the Opposition, to ask the customary question as to next week's
business. Having heard the PRIME MINISTER'S reply, he sat for a few
moments as if lost in thought, calculating, no doubt, by a rapid process
of mental arithmetic what the Consolidated Fund Bill, Supplementary
Estimates and the Civil Service Vote would amount to in terms of
dinners, teas and other light refreshments.

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[Illustration: _Enraged Tommy_ (_bespattered with mud by sniper's bullet
aimed a bit too low_). "Put up yer sight, yer careless blighter!"]

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On a bookseller's stall in Liverpool:--

"_The English Nation_. A really cheap lot."

We find them most expensive to keep up.

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[Illustration: _Mistress_. "Isn't it dreadful, Jane, about these
Zeppelins? It wouldn't be so wicked if they only destroyed munition
works."

_Jane_. "Yes, Mum. But they 'adn't ought to do that neither. They knows
puffickly well as we wants all the ammunitions as we can get."]

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ON THE SPY-TRAIL.

Jimmy says his bloodhound is always very glad to get loose after being
tied up all night, and it's because HARVEY discovered the circulation of
the blood. Jimmy says Faithful doesn't know he has got the circulation
of the blood, but he always has a little run round when he gets free. It
only takes him about five minutes to do his round, and an hour and
a-half afterwards you would never be