_Mr. Punch_ begs to remind the 1,793 correspondents who have lately sent
him delightful plays upon the word "wet" [DE WET the man and "de wet"
the rain (ha-ha)] that the same idea had already occurred to 15,825
correspondents during the Boer War. Time is a great healer, but twelve
years is not long enough.
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Mr. C. G. GREY writes in _The Daily Express_ on the Freidrichshafen
air-raid:--
"The raid itself was one of those simple affairs which might have
been done by any aviator possessing skill and pluck, only
fortunately for these three officers nobody else did it."
And the disparaging comment was one of those simple affairs which might
have been done by any journalist possessing ---- and ----, only
fortunately nobody else did it.
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