We were delighted to greet Mr Ignatius Igloo, Editor of the "Polar Tnnuit."" It was at Peking, several years ago, that we had last seen him, on which occasion he had descended from the frozen North to determine if it were worth while to start a hi-lingual Esquimau propaganda paper in China's Capital. His backers, the Aurora Borealis Tce Company, who also own the Gumdrop Monopoly, had at that time conceived a scheme for introducing the gumdrop to the Chinese, the sticky variety, with the idea that if Cathay's statesmen took to ft, there would be far fewer speeches and far more performance. The project did not mature, how-
"How's every little thing at the North Pole?" was our greeting.
"The place is not what it used to he answered, sad jast what's wrong, too much s, of your former ion by airships and such?" "Not at all," he assured us. "That was bound to come. The Esquimaux are far from unprogressive. Surely you recall the bronze group by Willie Whaleblubber. our national sculptor, called *Esquimaux in the Throes of Self-determination"? That fully, expresses the national spirit."
"Then what the deuce is wrong?
You look as if your last hope on earth was gone.
"Amateur Drafnatics, answered Ignatius Igloo, succinctly.
We gazed at him astounded, thinking our ears hiad deceived us.
"Amateur Dramatics," he repeat- 3 ed, even more succinctly; and then -noting that our, look of utter bewilderment "had not vanished, he said for tha third time, and with still greater succinctness, "Amateur Dramatics."
"Well, for erying out foud!" we managed to gasp, "do you mean to say.
not only mean to say, but am saying it."
"Well, for erying out lou waa again our feeble comment.
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