ls the tune-
ful name of Scotia's Gorbals;
And if you ever should desire
A subject to wax funny on,
What theme more fitly can inspire
The Muse than Ballybunnion?
Some places on my astral rounds
I'm strong upon tabooing,
On anti-alcoholic grounds
Grogport and Rum eschewing;
But no such painful stigma robs
Proud Potto of its lustre,
Or rules out Crank and Smeeth and Stobs,
A memorable cluster.
The pictures rising in my brain
Are strange; sometimes I muddle 'em,
Confounding Pleck with Plodder Lane,
Titley with Tillietudlem;
In short, it's not a game of skill,
Else I should scarce essay at;
But it is harmless, costs me _nil_;
And nobody need play it.
The plan is simple; choose a spot,
Then focus with decision
Your thoughts upon it till you've got
A clear-cut mental vision;
And though from fact it widely errs,
Remember in conclusion
Only the man of prose prefers
Eyewitness to illusion.
* * * * *
FROM THE BACK OF THE FRONT.
Extract from a soldier's letter:--
"DEAR MOTHER,--I am thoroughly run down, and have grown so thin that
when I get a pain in my middle I cannot tell whether it is a backache
or a stomachache."
* * * * *
"The choristers and I.C.U. enlivened each station along the route by
rending sacred songs and solos as The Kano Express drew in."--_Lagos
Weekly Record._
"That's torn it," said the conductor.
* * * * *
"Britons never shall be slaves if they will only remember the solemn
warning of the author of the words--'To thine own self be true, and
then thou canst be false to any man.'"--_Letter in Scotch Paper._
One recognises the note of liberty, but we fear the writer must have got
hold of a German edition of "Unser Shakspeare."
* * * * *
THE HARDSHIPS OF BILLETS.
As Jim and me lies in
Notka biograficzna
Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and womens rights advocate. The daughter of an American Civil War soldier who became a successful lawyer, Mary Johnston was born in the small town of Buchanan, Virginia. A small and frail girl, she was educated at home by family and tutors. She grew up with a love of books and was financially independent enough to devote herself to writing.
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