Later, meeting him in the restaurant-car I asked him to show me his store of bad money. I wanted to see for myself what those coins were like. "I haven't got them," he said. "You sent them to the Chief of the Police with your letter, I suppose?" I said. "No, I didn't," he replied. "The fact is--well--as a matter of fact I managed to work them all off again." * * * * * Illustration: "Curfew _shall not_ ring to-night." * * * * * "At the beginning of the season good bowling performances are not unusual--batsmen get themselves out so easily--but Barratt's bowling yesterday was better than his figures.... Five times yesterday he broke right across the wicket from leg, but none of those magnificent balls got wickets, perhaps because it was too early in the season."--_Times._ The beginning of the season seems rather a tricky time. * * * * * "Death of Collar: Cobham Stud's severe loss."--_Yorkshire Post._ The converse of this accident occurred to us the other day, when our Whitefriars collar lost its stud. * * * * * "Richard I.... at once began to prepare the third crusade. In 1190 he started, and reached Acre in June, 1911." _"Everyman" Encyclopaedia._ Thus missing KING GEORGE Vth's Coronation. * * * * * Illustration: _Customer._ "This is a beautiful chop, waiter, the best you've ever----" _Waiter._ "Yes, an' I won't 'arf cop nothing. That was the boss's chop what I've giv you in mistake." * * * * * VANDALISM. The new proposals with regard to the water supply of the City of Glasgow are causing, we are not surprised to learn, the utmost fury and consternation throughout Scotland. Criticism has concentrated especially upon two points: the imminent risk of submerging ROBERT THE BRUCE'S Stone and, of course, the danger of tampering in however slight a degree with the birthplace of ROB ROY. The passive resistance movement has already assumed such proportions that one enterprising publisher feels justified in announcing a new cheap edition of the "Waverley Novels," illustrated from local photographs. There is, of course, another side to the question. As far as the stone goes it is contended:-- (1) That no one knows why it should have belonged to ROBERT THE BRUCE, where he got it or what he did with it when he had it. (2) That the fact of its being under water would not impair its value in any way and at the same time would give an historical flavour to every glass of mitigated whisky thereafter drunk in the City of Glasgow. (3) That it could very easily be shifted a bit up the hill if it is desired to keep it dry, and a small permanent umbrella erected over it.