... . From Mr. Ernest Bo wen-Rowland's In Court and Out of Court (1925). SOME twenty years ago Sir Henry Brampton, then a Judge, was due to dine with a local magnate somewhere near Chester. It was the commission day of the Assizes, and a large party had been invited to meet him, including the Bishop of the diocese. Now it happened that Sir Henry arrived at the house nearly an hour late, and it ...

... . BY THOMAS KELLY. BY an almost unanimous verdict the friends of Spriggins agreed that his luck was phenomenal, Everything that he chanced seemed in the end to justify his choice, or his judgment as he himself would have said. If he bought a lame duck not only would it be able to swim gracefully, but would most likely turn out to be a young swan. When he took up some shares in a company that ...

... A FRIEND wrote a letter saying that he was in very bad health, and concluded: Is there anything worse than having toothache and earache at the same time? The other wrote back: Yes, rheumatism and Saint Vitus's dance! Claud I'm going to kiss you as you've never been kissed before. Maud Who said I hadn't If every young man could read his girl's thoughts there would be much less petrol ...

... THE WAT OF THE TRANSCT.: .R. By J. SACKVILLE MARTIN. LEWIS STAINES stood before the bureau of the hotel, staring at the register which the clerk had pushed across the counter to him. The clerk spoke very little English, and Mr. Staines very little French, but it was not that, but rather the register itself that was embarrass ing him. After a moment's pause he wrote rapidly, Mr. and Mrs. F. ...

... PATRICIA, aged seven, while eating breakfast in an unusually pensive mood, suddenly announced: Hod is clever, mummie, isn't He, to be able to think of names for everything, like toast and butter Mummie Yes, darling. Patricia Can He speak French and German, too, mummie Mummie Yes, darling. Patricia after a short pause What will I do, mummie, when I go to heaven if God speaks to me in French? ...

... THE STORY OF OLD DRURY. By A. LI. Wall. CHAPTER. I. THE PHCEN1X AND COCKPIT. (Continued from page 202 AMONGST the most popular of the dramatists whom Charles the First honoured was his poet-laureate, Sir William Davenant, Shak speare's godson, or perhaps, as he shamelessly boasted, his natural son. He was a dissipated courtier of considerable talent, who had fought and suffered in the Royal ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER V. FURNISHES A FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND AND FINAL I'ART OF THE GLORIOUS ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN HEATHER THORP AND SHIPLEY AND SHOWS HOW THE DOCTOR FARED WITH HIS WAGER. THE happy despatch of Mr. Reginald Woodridge occurred when the June sun was at its hottest, and the scouts were reduced to the verge of utter exhaustion. His dismissal ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STORY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER VII. DEALS WITH A TRIANGULAR DUEL, A PATERNAL EBULLITION, A SENTENCE OF DOMESTIC EXPATRIATION, AND A SHOWER OF TEARS DESCRIBES HOW THE DOCTOR CUNNINGLY BLENDED THE EXERCISE OF ONE GENTLE CRAFT WITH THAT OF ANOTHER, AND AFFORDS A PROSPECT OF THE RETURN MATCH BETWEEN HIM AND MR. REGINALD WOODRIDGE. KATE could not sleep for thinking of the ...

... . (By Richard Dowling.) THE stream Aspenore, before it falls into the river Ladeway, tumbles through a damp, dim, pine glen, then expands a little, and is presently gathered to the side of a mill by a weir, like a would-be truant child tethered by an apron-string to the waist of a mother. Below the mill the little stream is deep, placid, con tent. Here it seems to feel as though it had had its ...

... . BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. Chapter NIL FROM the time I first sailed a toy boat at Bognor, in the gullies left when the tide was receding, to the year 1866, when I owned the Loadstar cutter of 48 tons, I passed a great portion of my spare time upon the water. Since the latter period, I have enjoyed many a delightful sail in the Arrow, the Zouave, the Zara, the Iolanthe, the Zuleika, the Mars, ...

... HEATHERTHORP. A SPORTING STO RY. By Byron Webber. CHAPTER VIII. CONTAINS NOTES OF THE VISIT TO SCARBOROUGH RENEWS CHEERFUL INTERCOURSE WITH SOME EARLY FRIENDS EN DEAVOURS TO DEPICT A REMARKABLE MARKET-DINNER AT THE SURSINGLE ARMS; AND DESCRIBES THE DRAWING-UP OF ARTICLES FOR THE RETURN MATCH BETWEEN GREEK AND GREEK OTHERWISE DOCTOR AND IRONMASTER. FAITHFUL to the spirit of her promise, Sylvia ...

... . By Harriet Fisher. ABOUT the close of the year 1813, an orphan family of young people were living in the town of Northenden, then a far different place from the busy city of to-day. The river, which now flows black as ink between high ranks of mills and warehouses, was not then pent within such narrow bounds, nor had it yet attained its present sooty hue. There were even paths beside its ...