Sr. Pancake's day is still observed in fleet Street. The old custom of tossing the pancake is carried out in the "Stonehand's Rest," and the resulting scramble for beices causes much exitement, Aubrey Attaboy is usually very lucky on these occasions: last yer he grabbed three half-pints of mild-and-bitter when the contest was on. Unforchunately one of them happend to be his own, so he really only gained two.
AT that time Annie was the Home Page Edditress at the "Daily Wangle." Thinking to give the ladds a freet, she cooked pancakes according to her very own reside in the canteen, and sent one to each member of the staff.
Well, none of the chaps had seen Annie's pancakes before and they used them how they thought fit. The Film Crittic, thinking it was just another beice of publicity from a film company, threw it at the w.p.b. Like some of his reviews it missed, and stunned a coppy-boy entering the room at the physiological moment.
Vicount Fortrosse, the tamus gossip-writer, thougt one of his numerous readers had sent him a token of their regard, and wore the pancake as a chest-protecter for the rest of the, winter. -He was glad when the cold wether was over, The guy what writes the Gramophone Notes played his pancake over twice, wrote a glowing acount of the Battersea Boilerworks Brass Band's latest effort, and then sent out for a new box of needles.
Wuex the News Edditer received his pancake he grumbled about the way reporters send in their copy, marked it "8-pt." and sent it up to the camp-room.
A pancake was aliso sent to the Foundrey Foreman. He returned it, saying he could ent do nothing with it—they would have to send him better matrixes in future, or, better still, send him the original.
As far as is known, only one of Annie's pancakes were actually eaten, Lord Bothersnook, propprieter of the "Wangle," was the lucky man.
After he had recuvvered he ast who sent it, and now Annie does ent cook here any more! i Der, Use Sandgrit Self-Raising Flour, girls, if you want to make Perfect Pancakes for Pale Press-boys. If Annie had used Sandgrit she would still been Home Page Edditress—which is nice work if you can get it.
—Marmaduke in the "World's Press News.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.