Still, we _should_ be
grateful for better facilities for getting away from its delights now
and then, and this proposal to extend the Cab Radius has the warmest
support of Yours,
EASILY SATISFIED.
SIR,--By all means let us have cheaper Cabs in Greater London! The
County Council should subsidise a lot of Cabs, to ply exclusively
between London and the outskirts. Or why not a Government Cab Purchase
Bill, like the Irish Land Purchase one? We want a special Minister for
Public Locomotion--perhaps Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL would accept the
post?
Yours, spiritedly, HAMPSTEAD HEATHEN.
* * * * *
"HARD TO BEER!"
(_ADVANCE-SHEET FROM A PROJECTED ANTI-BACCHANALIAN TRAGI-FARCE, TO BE
CALLED "BY ORDER OF THE KAISER."_)
SCENE--_A Market Place in Berlin._ German Students
_carousing._ Emissary of the Emperor _seated at table apart
watching them. Apprehensive_ Waiters _nervously supplying the
wants of their Customers._
_First German Student_. Another flagon of beer, Kellner!
_Waiter_. Here, Mein Herr! (_Brings glass and, as he places it on the
table, whispers aside._) Oh, beware, my good Lord--this is your second
glass.
_First Ger. Stu._ (_with a laugh_). I know what I am about! And now,
my friends, I give you a toast--The Liberty of the Fatherland!
_Chorus of Students_.
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