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 Smith was all to the good, grinned Micky. What a relief it was to have the strain of that Graeme business eased momentarily!

He drew contentedly on his pipe.

C. F. M.—Bottomley is pronounced as spelt; not Bholmon'eley, articulated as Bumley.

J. H. M.—It was Oscar Wilde who spoke about Mrs. Langtry, when in America, having an outdoor photograph taken “with the Falls of Niagara as a kind of unpretentious background.” Nor do we want the very long spun out lines dealing with “the rather primrose.”

SERPENTINE.—H. wins the bet; the last favorite to win the Lincolnshire Handicap was uninsured.

W. A.—Have handed it over to Mr. Pitcher, who is pondering a volume on “Good Tunes and Old Fiddles,” opening with Mrs. Werry (at the age of fifty-six) blubbering over Byron at Smyrna and depriving him of a lock of his hair.

D. D. R.—Too lurid for cultured readers.

A. F. A.—Selina Young, “the Female Blondin,” crossed the Thames on a rope stretched from the Battersea shore to Cremorne Gardens in 1861. We have never heard of the other lady.

CARRIE UPSCHER.—It may have been accounted a good story hundreds and hundreds of years ago, when there was a land connection between Europe