"For the first time on record snow has fallen at Albany, Western
Australia.
The Food Ministry announces that this surplus will therefore be
available for home jam-making."--_Provincial Paper._
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"The Roman poets, all of them inveterate Cockneys, talk of the joys of
the country, of purling streams and lowing kine and frisking lamps."--
_Weekly Paper._
And their verses occasionally smell of them.
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[Illustration: _Prospective Mistress._ "ARE YOU A CONSISTENTLY EARLY
RISER?"
_Maid._ "NOT ARF! WHY, MUM, IN MY LAST PLACE THE MASTER'S PET NAME FOR ME
WAS 'THE EARLY WORM.'"]
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