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[Illustration: _Old Lady._ "And what regiment are you in?"
_The Sub._ "7th Blankshires. But I'm attached to the 9th Wessex."
_Old Lady._ "Really! Now _do_ tell me why the officers get so fond of
regiments with aren't their own."]
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"At Nottingham on Saturday the damages ranging from £7 10s. to
£3 were ordered to be paid by a number of miners for
absenteeism. It was stated that, although absolved from
military obligations by reason of their occupation, there had
been glaring neglect of responsibility, some men having lost
three ships a week."--_Western Morning News_.
These mines are very tricky things.
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