The man who can efficiently prepare shrimps for seemly
consumption, chatting brightly the while with his fair neighbour and
showing neither mental nor physical distress, can be relied upon to comport
himself with efficiency whether in commerce or statecraft.
Watch a man swallow an oyster, and how much more do you know of him after
the operation than you knew before? But put him in a Marchioness's
drawing-room and set a shrimp before him, and the manner in which he
tackles the task will reveal the sort of stuff he is made of.
The shrimp test is one before which physically strong men have broken down,
while the seemingly weak have displayed amazing fortitude.
In these days, when it behoves every man among us to be at his best, we
view this famine in shrimps with grave concern, and we trust that the Board
of Agriculture and Fisheries is alive to the significance of this crisis.
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PUBLISHER'S COLUMN.
"Colonel Repington's Diary.
NEW BOOKS.
The Revelation of St. John.
NEW FICTION.
The Autobiography of Judas Iscariot."--_Scotch Paper._
And MARGOT next week.
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RAINY MORNING.
As I was walking in the rain
I met a fairy down a lane.
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