"To dig well one must dig often. Any series of complex co-ordinated
movements can be performed with the greatest economy of effort only
when they have become semi-reflex; and for this to happen the
correlated series of nervous impulses must be linked up by higher
development of the brain cells."
A spade is useful, too.
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"I did not hear yesterday of the insufficiency of bread supplied at
Restaurants being made up by cakes and guns brought from home."--_Irish
Paper._
We have heard, however, of an insufficiency of alcoholic refreshment being
made up by a "pocket-pistol."
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"After all, the custom of marrying only into Royal houses came to us
from Germany, and dates from the Hanoverians.... The case of Henry
VIII. is well known. Four of his wives were plain Englishwomen...."--
_Sunday Herald._
Not so plain, however, as the German one, ANNE OF CLEVES.
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[Illustration: CANNON-FODDER--AND AFTER.
KAISER (_to 1917 Recruit_). "AND DON'T FORGET THAT YOUR KAISER WILL FIND A
USE FOR YOU--ALIVE OR DEAD."
[At the enemy's "Establishment for the Utilisation of Corpses" the dead
bodies of German soldiers are treated chemically, the chief commercial
products being lubricant oils and pigs' food.]]
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[Illustration: _Aunt._ "THIS IS A TERRIBLE WAR. ALL OF US MUST GO WITHOUT
SOMETHING."
_R.F.C. Officer._ "WELL, I TRY TO BE BRAVE ABOUT IT, AUNT. BUT THIS
ZEPPELIN SHORTAGE HITS ME VERY HARD."]
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