pull."

I admitted the attraction of tigers to certain tastes, but not to
mine. In my case the pull, I thought, might be on the tiger's side.

Since these interviews I have been going the rounds of my military
acquaintances and I find a general feeling in favour of Ceylon or the
Malay Peninsula.

Of course it's an excellent thing that they should take up the white
man's burden and make the coolies work, only I'm in dread lest the
overcrowding we suffer from in England may be extended to the Orient.
Will there be enough plantations, coolies and big game to go round
amongst our subalterns?

I can see the Government introducing several Bills--

(1) For the extension of the Isle of Ceylon;

(2) For the lengthening of the Malay Peninsula;

(3) For the importation of five million coolies, estimated at the
rate of five hundred coolies each, to give employment to ten thousand
second-loots;

(4) For the importation of elephants, tigers, lions, buffalo,
hippopotami, giraffes and capercailzie.

* * * * *

AT PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE.

[Mr. GEOFFREY DAWSON has resigned the Editorship of _The Times_,
owing to a disagreement with Lord NORTHCLIFFE over matters of
policy, and has been succeeded by Mr. H. WICKHAM STEED, formerly
foreign editor.]

"Once more upon the waters! Yet once more!
And the waves bound beneath me as a Steed
That knows his master."

_Byron_, "_Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_."

* * * * *

[Illustration: _Inspecting Officer_. "WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NUT
ON THIS LORRY?"

_Driver_ (_ex-infantry_). "I AM, SIR."]

* * * * *

A CAREER.

(_The Right Man in the Right Place_.)

You should see our son James!
You should just see our James!
As bright as a button, as sharp as a knife!
My wife says to me and I say to my wife,
"You'll never have seen such a son in your life
As our jammy son, James."

He is now three years old;
He's a good three years old;
When the fellow was two you could see by his brow
(At the age of a year, you could guess by the row)
That this was a coming celebrity. Now
He's a stout three-year-old.

Question: What shall he be?
Tell us, what shall he be?
Shall he follow his father and go to the Bar,
Where, passing his father, he's bound