En's mother and father went into the country the other Sunday to see how he was getting on after his evacuation.
"Erh met them at the station.
"Gee, "Erh says mum, "You do look a toff. Ow are they looking arter you where yer living?"
"Great, mum," says 'Erh, gleefully. "The lady's ever so good to me. She's bought me this new suit, and she don't arf make a fuss o' me. Treats me like a gentleman, Won't let me do nothing, "Why, mum," he added, sticking out his-small chest, "I don't even ave to tell the landlord she ain't in."
Let's Get It Straighi ~A READER of the "Daily Mail" asked for explanation of the following, from a medical journal: "The new term orthoptics' is now applied to the treatment of concomitant strabismus by remedial exercises with the object of establishing stereoscopic vision..."
Although I am a winner at deciphering And income Tax assessments are a Soma, to me I must admit the dictionary helped me with "ertheptie'—Tt simply means to straighten out the way in which you see.
The eyeballs have six: nuscles: four are straight and two oblique, And the balance of the recti, if it should become upset, Makes you look to normal persons somewhat of an optic freak Though they have a word describing it I will mot use just yet.
The language of "The Lancet" is a thing I'd hate to type out And their trisyllable words they d i oni 'y do not simplify Concomitant strabismus, which orthoptics seeks to wipe out, Is—to put it in plain English—Just the drawback of a squint, —Bee
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.