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"Now that Miss Cecil Leitch has won the Ladies' Golf
Championship after seven years' unsuccessful striving, it may be
suggested that she might alter the spelling of her name to
Leach. Just to show how she stuck to it!"--_Glasgow Evening
News._
The writer should have stuck to his dictionary.
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"It was officially stated yesterday that Dr. Herbert William
Moxon, the son of a former prominent Unionist in West
Derbyshire, had consented to address a meeting of Liberals with
a view to his adaptation as Liberal candidate for West
Derbyshire."
_Daily Mail._
These adaptable politicians.
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"Mr. Palmer would still deserve to be crowned with unfading
laurels."--_Times._
Palmer _qui meruit ferat_.
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Latest Cannibal News.
"Djaraboub ordinarily contains only 350 inhabitants but these
are swollen by pilgrims."
_Siam Observer._
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[Illustration: _First Jack Tar Abroad_ (_to second, very "busy
riding"_). "'Ulloa, Bill; looks like yer workin' yer passage."
_Bill._ "Yuss; 'ad bloomin' rough weather, too; but it's all right if ye
'old on to this 'ere forestay."]
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