BARD MORRIS sings:--"For this of old is sure, That change of toil is toil's sufficient cure." Ah me! You ought to add, oh bard omniscient, "Provided always that the pay's sufficient." * * * * * COPYRIGHT, AND ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.--Mr. HALL CAINE, author, addressing a deputation from the Dominion, is said to have remarked that "he felt assured of help from them, as they were _Hall Caine-aidians_." * * * * * QUITE NATURAL.--A composer who had taken rooms in certain mansions in Victoria Street has given them up, as he found himself writing everything in A Flat. Most monotonous. * * * * * The "Hook of Holland" ought to catch some large fish. What is it baited with? * * * * * HOW KIPPER SLEW THE NEW FOREST HORNET. CHAPTER II.--_The Rescue._ For what length of time KIPPER and the stagbeetle remained in the unwonted positions described in the preceding chapter it would be impossible to say without a stop-watch, which makes a good repeater. However, it is certain that a couple of snails out for a stroll, who saw the fall from the bottom of the heap, tried to come to their help; but, owing to gout, they were unable to get more than half-way up. A neighbouring mole heard the stagbeetle's smothered cries, but, being blind, scuttled off in the wrong direction; while an old-fashioned toad, who lived in a mud-bank just opposite, was aroused from an afternoon nap, and, after peering out of his hole, declared that it was no business of his. But then he was always hard-hearted, and had made it a point never to interfere in the affairs of others ever since he was out-voted in the Zoological County Council on the question as to whether tadpoles should be recognised as young frogs. He was opposed to the measure, stating, in a powerful speech, that inasmuch as a frog had no tail, therefore a tadpole could not be a frog. Being defeated, he retired into private life, and was, so report said, building a home for destitute dormice, for he was a person of considerable wealth. But he was very mean, and a shrew was heard to observe that the reason he wished to take the dormice under his protection was because they ate nothing in the winter.