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For the usual prize of £5 competitors are invited to

submit a set of rules for the guidance of competition setters and judges. Sarcasm is not ruled out. Verse : not more than six couplets. Prose : not more than 150 words.

Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 287,' 99 Gower Street, London, WC1, must be received by August 23. Results in the Spectator of September 2.