(to The Editor Of The "spectator.")
Si,—My small son, just back from school, assures me that one or Ins schoolfellows translated Cave canem, "Beware! I may sing." If this is not an old chestnut, but the boy's......
[to The Editor Of Tee" Spectator.")
SIR,—You may care to add the following to your collection, per- petrated by my daughter aged eleven in a recent examination. Q. "What is a veterinary surgeon?" A. "A doctor for......
The Merchant Seamen's View.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The Paeificists and Bolsheviks in the British Trade Union movement are whining because His Majesty's Government refuse them passports......
Poetry.
COMFORT. Now she need dread no more to greet Too old for him; she need not know The bitterness when he who was All hers turns to some younger face; And she his mother stands......
(to The Editor Or The " Spectator.") Sia,—the...
the last Spectator, who wants the full reading of this epitaph, will find it in Mr. Gurney Benham's Book of Quotations, under "Tired." Its authorship is unknown. Thirty-eight......
(to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sia,—in Reply To Your
correspondent "Tired Woman," the epi- taph she inquires about was published in the Daily Graphic in August, 1905. It was found written by Catherine Allsop, a Sheffield......
The Tired Woman.
(To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—In reply to the letter of "Tired Woman" in your issue of the 10th, I send herewith a transcript from a copy of the epitaph supplied to......
(to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—the Lines Asked For
by your correspondent "Tired Woman" are quoted as a Norfolk epitaph in the Life of Lord Avebury, Vol. 1., p. 224. At a meeting of London shopkeepers, Sir J. I.ubbock carried an......
(to The Editor Of The "spectator."]
Sin,—Many years ago the late James Payn, reading the epitaph in a Sheffield newspaper, chortled delightedly, and at his request the editor endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to trace......
Horses' Rations.
[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR.") Sin,—We are all delighted to hear that as a result of the efforts of ourselves and our Allies, it is proposed to give us whiter bread. But......
"howlers."
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—.4 propos of the " howlers" which you have recently published, I remember my uncle, the lute Mr. F. E. Kitchener, who spent the greater......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator.")
SIR,—" Tired Woman" will find the epitaph to which she refers in James Payn's Thicker than Water, chap. xxxiii. I enclose a copy of the lines.—I am, Sir, &c., AUGUSTA THOMPSON.......
[to The Editor Of The "spectator."] Sir,—when I Was At
the Quaker School at Sidcot, Co. Somerset (1866-69), during a written history examination, in answer to the simple question : "What was it that the Conqueror introduced into......
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