My pawn was captured.

UNUSUAL LOCOMOTIVES. By E. F. Carter. Frederick Muller Ltd. 21s. … This book is particularly disappointing as this is an un-hackneyed subject upon which a reliable book would be most welcome.

My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

That athlete is a real thoroughbred.