Poetry.
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold,
And the way he came down was awful, I'm told;
But it's nothing to the way one of the Editors comes down on me,
If I crumble my bread-and-butter or spill my tea.—Noël.
Curious Facts.
If you hold a guinea-pig up by his tail his eyes drop out.
You can't do half the things yourself that children in books do, making models or so on. I wonder why?—Alice.
If you take a date's stone out and put in an almond and eat them together, it is prime. I found this out.—Sub-Editor.
If you put your wet hand into boiling lead it will not hurt you if you draw it out quickly enough. I have never tried this.—Dora.
The Purring Class
(Instructive Article.)
If I ever keep a school everything shall be quite different. Nobody shall learn anything they don't want to. And sometimes instead of having masters and mistresses we will have cats, and we will dress up in cat skins and learn purring.
