"Ladies and Gentlemen,--Congratulating upon the great victory
of our Allies, we want to supply you Water Colour Pictures and
Antique Prints fresh and much selected subjects painted by the
most famous artists in Japan; so we long to have the honour to
receive your favourable inspection and enjoy yourselves with
triumphing victory for Our Lord's blessing in X'mas time."
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"Surely with all the wars and rumours of wars all over the world,
a little mare tact could have been displayed by the powers that
be to keep the peace in the very centre of a British
Protectorate."--_Leader (East Africa)_.
The quality desired would appear to be the East African equivalent of
horse sense.
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