st everything but politesse;
And then I gave back several hasty inches
Before your maenad rush; I felt alarmed
Lest you should use a hatpin in the clinches
While I was all unarmed.

So in a more or less intact condition
You made your exit through the trellised gate,
And (this, I must admit, is mere suspicion)
Asked of a porter was your hat on straight;
And lo! the bard, left dreaming _suo more_,
Mused upon things the future hid from view;
He looked adown the years and saw the glory
England would win through you.

For in my morning sheet I'd seen it bruited,
Mid talk of Jazz and Fox Trot, plaids and checks,
That boxing was a sport precisely suited
To what it quaintly called the gentler sex;
I thought about the coming day when bevies
Of beauty would be found inside the ropes,
And saw you, eminent among the "heavies,"
The whitest of white hopes.

I saw--and at the vision England's stock ran
High above par--how in the padded strife,
Beneath the auspices of Mr. COCHRAN,
You'd whip the world, or should I say his wife?
Our land once more would boast the champion thumper,
The doughtiest dealer of the hefty welt,
The holder of--but no, by then a jumper
Will have replaced the belt.

* * * * *

"OFFICERS' HEAVY-WEIGHTS.

Final: Lt. W. R. Nicol (R.F.A.) knocked out Lt.-General Lord
Rawlinson, Commanding at Aldershot."--_Sportsman._

That's more than LUDENDORFF could do.

* * * * *

"Some years have passed since I last saw Mr. ----, and last
evening I found him considerably aged. His one black hair is
very grey."

_Provincial Paper._

Probably the result of depression caused by loneliness.

* * * * *

"The Prince of ---- has returned recently from England where
he was educated. He is to marry several wives, as is the
custom of ----. His education is to continue."--_North China
Daily News._

We can well believe it.

* * * * *

"The Chester Vase resolved itself into a contest between a
four-year-old and some three-year-olds, but in this case
the four-year-old was Buchan, a Trojan among
minnows."--_Provincial Paper._

The writer seems to be a student of "classic" form.

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