"Hence so many reversals by the Court of Appeal that suitors
were often more uneasy if they lost their case before him than
if they won it."--_Irish Times_.
We assume that they were Irishmen.
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"Elderly Lady Requires Post, as companion, Secretary or any
position of trust, would keep clergyman's wife in Parish,
etc."--_Church Family Newspaper_.
But the difficulty with the parson's wife in some parishes, we are
told, is just the reverse of this.
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"Duck and drake (wild) wanted; must be tame."--_Scotsman_.
We dislike this frivolity in a serious paper.
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[Illustration: OUR YOUNG VETERANS.
_Grandfather_. "JUST HAD A TOPPING BIT OF NEWS, OLD DEAR. GERALD'S
WANGLED THE D.S.O."
_Granny_. "ABSOLUTELY _PRICELESS_, OLD THING. ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT
CHILD WAS _SOME_ NIB."]
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