21 MARCH 1885, Page 13

HE RAT.

LTO TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—In relation to the interest now centred in Herat, an elaborate French jeu de mots, the offspring of a former crisis, as old as the days of Louis Philippe, may, perhaps, amuse your readers :—"La prise d'Herat (des rats) a excitd lea souris de In Chambre. Qu'en dit le Schah (le chat)? Ii veille; il a

percant (Persan)."—I am, Sir, &c., 0.