17 JULY 1920, Page 16

A CUCKOO STORY.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") 6m—flay° you space for a story about a cuckoo's egg ? A ce-antry parson in his round went to see a Mrs. Jones, who Mid to him: "Can you tell me, sir, what (this egg may be? " 1' Well, Mrs. Jones, I think it is a cuckoo's egg." "Oh!-no,

sir, it can't be that, for you know that cuckoos don't never lay their own eggs."—I am, Sir, hc., H. M. T.