... YES, THE COPS SURROUND THE 'OUSE AND 'E, REALISIN' THAT 'CRIME DOES NOT PAY,' 'ANGS 'ISSELF BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES! LUMMY! NO WONDER YOU WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN! DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... . LIEUT. J. WATTON, British prisoner-of-icar artist, has made this amusing record of an hour of instruction in Oflag IVC. The pupil is an officer prisoner remark able for the sang-froid Britanniqne which he is able to maintain throughout the whirlwind lesson given by his foreign teacher Lieut. Wattoh*s drawings have frequently appeared in 44 The Illustrated London Neus and also in 44 The ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. We Take Off Our Hat For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a cover ing. Thus spake St. Paul unto the Corinthians, and learned persons have been ...

... Pl^kmnd, By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- When the Linnet's Philip began to mutter the threatening word Overseas, and the Linnet looked at us with large, pathetic blue eyes, Charles and I gave in gracefully, agreeing that these are not the times for middle-aged caution and Do you think you are old enough? and Why not wait a few years? When we sat down to make a list of the people we ...

... JACK AND JQHN^AND MARYT By PETER JACKSON. THIS hotel (said the man in the deck-chair) seems to have been stuck on the side of the mountain by a capricious child. Look at that view. Do you know, but for a poet and a telephone I should have missed all this-- the blue of the lake, those purples at the bottom of the valley, that patch of yellow by the church, the pearl grey of those clouds where ...

... [P ? jj By JOANNA MARKHAM. IT was a house that had seen better days, but near by high-explosive had chipped it, broken window-frames and windows. Borough workmen had done the minimum of mending, so that the house could be listed habitable and the rooms let to workers crowding back to London. But not all the lodgers were workers some led much the same life as they did before, reduced as were ...

... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. The Merry-go-round. How long is it since we were able to attach the traditional adjective to Christmas without a sense of irony? Years before the storm, when all the clouds were gathering, it seemed indecent to be merry; indeed, it was impossible, for thunderstorms turn all milk sour, including the milk of human kindness-- and they also cause headaches. This ...

... LUMMY! WHAT NEXT WILL THEY INVENT IN SHAPE OF A BIKE? DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- The Conductor has had to give up the Ladies' Choir since he became Duck-Minded. He told Mrs. Whinebite that he had only exchanged one set of Ducks for another, but she was not amused. He now spends nearly all his time in his garden talking to the Ducks, feeding the Ducks, or making them ponds. So far he has made them two ponds. One is called the Puddle-Slush, ...

... THE PRINCESSES AS A GAINSBOROUGH. T.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH and PRINCESS MARGARET, and a cast of tiventy village schoolchildren, gave a first-rate performance of The Sleeping Beauty as their Christmas charity pantomime. The King and Queen ivatched their daughters in an audience which included villagers and troops from the district. This Gainsborough portrait the most charming yet shows how ...