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Idols fall, traditions crumble, legends decompose horribly. the headmaster of Eton now tells us that what Wellington really said about the playing-fields and Waterloo was that he learned his spirit of adventure jumping over the ditch at the bottom of the school matron's garden. all we want now is to hear that when he said 'up, guards, and at 'em', he was offering a highly impracticable answer to Queen Victoria's question about how to get the sparrows out of the Crystal Palace
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![Humour through the Ages
How Sulaimān the merchant, while at meet with the Shah Tahmāsp, being asked if the egg of the desert quail set before him did mock the nostrils of anticipation with the perfumes of decay, did reply that, on the contrary, a considerable proportion of it did indeed unlock the casket of satisfaction with the golden key of delectability.
[From a MS of Nizami]](https://chrisbeetles.com/storage/27985/conversions/1wbvkld0068x-masonry.jpg)
![Humour through the Ages
Toyo Mitsuhito the poet acts strangely in depositing rice from bowl on head: when questioned as to meaning of uncustomary procedure, makes explanation that was under erroneous impression that said bowl contained maize.
[From a Japanese print]](https://chrisbeetles.com/storage/27984/conversions/4mp0lpqi0hp8-masonry.jpg)
