each other, the man in the doorway taken aback by the unexpected question, the men on the semi-circle all expectation.
Presently, recovering himself: " I deal with these questions in church, not here," answered the Rector, icily.
A pause. "Anything else? " queried the Rector. No answer. " Then good-night," concluded the Rector, and closed the door.
R. L. M.
GLIDING.
The world's glider champion, Herr Robert Kronfield, says emphatically that Britain is as good a country for gliding as could be found.
To show that, he glided from Itford, Sussex, to Portsmouth, a little over seventy miles.
Amazing progress has been made in Germany, where glides of several hours' duration are common-place. Kronfield has won two records, distance and height. He glided 95 miles at an altitude of 6,000 feet.
When you start to learn gliding you are placed in a machine known as a "primary trainer," and towed behind a car. This is to give air sense and a height of 40 feet is thereby obtained. Then you are allowed to fly one of these machines without the aid of a car.
You are catapulted off the top of a hill by means of an elastic rope.
There are over 50 British gliding clubs, of which the Kent Gliliding Club was the first, founded by Mr. Lowe Wilde, its star pilot.
R. BODIAM.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Employer, to Applicant: " No, I don't require a boy. I do all the work here myself."
Applicant: "Yes, sir; then the job would just suit me."
There was an old glutton of Duns,
Who said: " I'll eat ninety-three buns";
At the seventy-first
He unluckily burst,
So the rest were consumed by his sons.
H. PEARCE.
All things come to the man who waits—especially whiskers.
The hide of the cow is very useful, because it keeps the animal together.
The Frenchman said: " Terrible place, zis London ! Everywhere you must tip. Even when you wash ze hands it say, ' Tip ze basin'."
W. SPURGEON.
A man and his wife had been shipwrecked and had escaped on a raft. As no land or ship came in sight, they decided to post a last message in a bottle. The bottle had just been flung out to sea when the wife shouted: "Oh, Alfred, fetch back the post ! I have forgotten a P.S."
S. REYNOLDS.
A recent advertisement stated : "Wanted, a chair for a man with a padded seat." "A watch has been lost by a lad with a luminous dial. " "An antique table to be sold by a lady with twisted legs and a polished surface."
W. BEALE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
No. 28 (A6) Squadron, Royal Air Force, Risalpur, N.W.F.P., India. 15th October, 1930.
Dear Mr. Piper,
I have just received a "Kent Messenger" dated about a month ago, and in it I was very sorry to read of the death of Mr. W. J. McCabe; and also I read that you are taking over the old School, and in this connection I would like to wish you unqualified success.