"JANUARY 27.
Thursday.
_German Emperor born_, 1859.
O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings.--_Milton._"
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"If men well up in years would cultivate a habit of breathing
properly and always holding themselves erect when walking and
sitting, we would find fewer elderly people bent double when we
do."--_Daily Express._
Our gay contemporary has been caught bending on this occasion.
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"He asked the Government not to muzzle the ox that laid golden
eggs."--_The Daily Argosy (Demerara)._
It wasn't really an ox; it was a bull.
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From a country retail chemist's appeal to the Local Tribunal for his
son's exemption from Military Service:
"I cannot dispense with him"--or, presumably, without him.
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[Illustration: ONCE BIT, TWICE SHY.
_Sporting Lawyer._ "IF YOU'LL TAKE MY ADVICE YOU'LL COME TO THE BRIDGE!"
_Old Farmer._ "NA FEAR! SIX-AND-EIGHTPENCE FOR T' ADVICE? I'D RATHER
CHANCE A DUCKIN'."]
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