If only you walk with an open ear And watch with an open eye, There's wonderful magic to see and hear By silently passing by; In meadows and ditches, here and there, You'll find the clothes that the fairies wear. You can see each golden and silvery frock In Lady's Mantle and Ladysmock; There's Lady's Garter (which, I suppose, They wear with the cowslips called Hose-in-hose); The solemn fairies who ride on owls Shroud their faces with Monkswood cowls; And there's other things besides fairy dresses-- There's Lady's Mirror and Lady's Tresses. Bachelors' Buttons must be for elves Who have to do up their clothes themselves; And the tailor fairies use Fairy Shears, Long cutting-grasses that grow by meres; And they mend their things with the Spider-stitches, Faint white flowers that you find in ditches, And Shepherd's Needle, which you'll see plain In every meadow and field and lane; And when they've used them they grow again. If only you walk with an open ear And watch with an open eye, There's wonderful secrets to see and hear By silently passing by; In meadows and ditches, here and there, You'll find the clothes that the fairies wear; And if you look when they think you've gone Perhaps you'll see them trying them on. * * * * * "The whole of the United States is intensely interested in a baseball scandal revealed a few days ago. The Grand Judy, which is now investigating the charge, has already indicted eight of the leading players."--_Evening Paper_. Mr. Punch wishes his old consort more power to her elbow. * * * * * ROBBERY IN COURT. There would seem to be some need for watchfulness in our Courts of Justice lest the customs and privileges which to so great an extent have made them what they are should be allowed to lapse. A great sensation was caused throughout the legal profession the other day when it was reported in the Press that a witness, in giving evidence, made the following remark:--"It goes in one ear and out of the other. Perhaps that is because there is nothing to stop it." The report stated that laughter followed, and, if that was indeed the case, then we have no hesitation whatever in characterising it as a most unseemly outburst.