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[Illustration: "ALL'S WELL!"
_Cockney Volunteer_ (_on sentry go_). "Halt! Who goes there?"
_Rustic._ "It's all roight, man. Oi cooms along 'ere ev'ry maarnin'!"]
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[Illustration: SKIRMISHING IN PERSPECTIVE
"A good skirmisher, if there is no cover, should hide behind his
boots!"]
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_Elder Sister_ (_coming up_). "Kitty! what have you been saying to
Captain Coward? He looks dreadfully offended!"
_Kitty_ (_engaged to the Captain_). "I only told him that if he had gone
to the war and been shot, I should have been so proud of him!"
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