Jimmy says when he got home there was quite a crowd round the house where Faithful had removed the greenhouse from off the sparrow. A policeman told Jimmy all about it. It appeared, so the policeman said, that some person or persons unknown had got to know that the people in the house were harbouring a German governess and had smashed up the greenhouse in revenge. The greenhouse looked as if it had been struck by a bomb, the policeman said, and when the people saw it they knew their secret was out and went and confessed to the police. The policeman told Jimmy that they had just taken the German governess away to the police-station. Jimmy says that when he got home he sat down and looked at Faithful for half-an-hour--just looked at him. To think that Faithful had been on the Spy Trail all the time and Jimmy never knew it! * * * * * An Incisive Beginning. "Mr. Gordon Hewart, opening the president of the London Chamber of Commerce ..." _The Star_. * * * * * The Hebdomadal Council of Oxford University have suspended for six months the filling of the Professorship of Modern Greek, the view apparently being that there is no one about just now who understands the modern Greek. * * * * * [Illustration: _Youthful Patriot_. "Take away the night-light, Mary. I'd rather risk the dark than attract a Zeppelin."] * * * * * "_The Rivista Marittima_ publishes details of a new German ironclad, which is claimed to be totally unsinkable.... It is said to be a Dreadnought-cruiser, fitted with triple skins of armour, stuffed with non-resisting material."--_Times._ It sounds like one of our conscientious objectors. * * * * * "The albatross--its docility was charming--soon occupied a splendid isolation on the tarpaulined covered hatchway platform.... I shall in future read Keats' 'Ancient Mariner' with an accentuated interest." _Natal Witness._ COLERIDGE'S "Ode to a Nightingale" was rejected as dealing with the wrong bird. * * * * * "Young Lady-Attendant for Allies' Rifle Range, to replace one getting married; the 3rd in 12 months doing the same; good remuneration, and comfortable job."--_Glasgow Citizen._ Bow and arrow or .303, Cupid's markmanship remains unerring. * * * * * "The Man who dined at Krupp's and worked with the Kaiser." _Morning Paper Heading_. The _menu_ at KRUPP'S is not given, but was probably some form of pig. * * * * * Another Impending Apology. "SCOTCH NURSES IN SERBIA. GERMAN DOCTOR'S IMPRESSIONS. 'VERY FORBIDDING.'" _Egyptian Gazette._ * * * * * From a notice of a recent novel:--