26 MARCH 1932, Page 12

Elton SCOTLAND.

On Saturday lest, the Town Green pond at Dunfermline teemed with toads, all in motion, and apparently under extraordinary excitation. A number of boys stood looking intensely on for some time ; when one of them exclaimed, " It's the House o' Lords debatin' the Reform Bill." In an instant, " Demolish !" was the universal cry. Caps and bonnets were filled with stones. " Now for Wellington ! " Here's at you, LondondertV " " Take that, Buckingham ! " " The Bishops ! the Bishops ! shouted a little urchin. The " hums " became universal, and terrible was the work of death. The above incident "points a moral," if it does not " adorn a tale:'