"For Sale.--Dark red Shorthorn Bulls, from two years downwards,
bred to milk for thirty years."--_Farmer's Weekly_.
"For Sale by Auction, one Mare Colt."--_Kent and Sussex Courier_.
"Then again the cockerel is a summer layer."--_Irish Farming
World_.
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"Sir Godfrey Baring, the sitting Liberal member, is not standing
again."--_Evening Paper_.
If he's not going to sit or stand, he'll have to take it lying down.
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A Venetian boy-scout on the Lido
Had sighted a hostile torpedo,
So he cried, "Don't suppoge
You can blow up the Doge;
You must do without him--as we do."
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"WEST OF ENGLAND.--To be Sold, a perfect gentleman's Residence, in
faultless condition and all modern improvements, and a pedigree
Stock Farm of 150 acres adjoining, with possession."--_Daily
Paper_.
We hope the pedigree of the perfect gentleman is included as well as
that of the stock farm.
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