This is what I read:--

"Peer, ruined by the War, would sell one-third of arterial contents

for cash, or would exchange blood-outfits with successful woollen

manufacturer.--5016 Kensington Gore, W.

"To War Profiteers. Several quarts of the real cerulean for disposal.

Been in same family for generations. Pedigree can be inspected at

office of advertiser's solicitor. Cross-transfusion not objected to.

Address in first instance, BART., 204, Bleeding Heart Yard, E.C.

"Public School and University Man of Plantagenet extraction would like

to correspond with healthy Coal Miner with view to cross-transfusion.

Would sell soul for two shillings.--A. VANE-BLUDYER, 135, Down (and

Out) Street, West Kensington, W."

"Makes your blood run cold," I said, handing back the paper.

"Not it," he said, detaching himself from the strap as the train drew

into King's Cross; "not if the operation's properly performed."

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