Figuratively speaking, this is written from a bed of- palli.. We are unable to account for the' fact! that regularly once a year We are! assailed by infantile colic. Fancy larly one' at our time of life'sufering from infantile colle, unless it that. the inexorable' figure of time points' closer and closer to our second childhood! And would we might speak of it by a much more scientific, and fashionable ich' as "paininthelittlemaryas. to impress you with just how miserable we have been, and how we would have been Justified in submitting ourself to the ministrations of professional col-Teagues at one of the hospitals. However, we can never take advintage of our opportunities, through the misfortune of having' to work for a living. Just fancy, here wel might be reading about ourself in the persond column to the effect that—
We would inform our readers that the contributor of From the Crow's Nest" has been at the Sundity Hospital for the. past fortnight, where he has undergone serious operation and from which, wwe regret to say, he is recover: ing.
"No doubt our readers have en-
Joved this brief respite from his weekly drivel, though we can offer them no assurance of its continuance beyond the next. week or two, There is an unconfirmed telegram in, however, to. the effect that there are several other charges pending against him, and] that he is under examination for his mental condition as well water on the teeth. would urge upon our readers to the teeth with considerable reserve."
But there it is. For ut, only the Jcommon or garden variety of infantile colic, to which we not yield but) must Joar teeth, paraphrase the effect, "With little Mary pa ful but unbowed, Iyam the captain lof my manuscript, T_yam the master lof my typewriter." What, disappoint the readers of the "Crow's Nest," to say nothing of sundry pages for which the world palpitates leach week? Unthinkabl Thus, dear reader, you are not \deprived of what you have waited s0 lently for all the week (thank you both for your applause) and we trust that you now realize how the
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