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_The Daily Telegraph_ on the next Drury Lane melodrama:--
"We are able to say on the very best authority that the idea at the
root of the story is of a quite unusual nature; indeed, if secrecy
were not for the moment imposed, one might even go a step further and
declare it to be of startling originality."
As it is, one doesn't; for if once the secret got about that the play was
to be original there would be riots in Fleet Street.
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"Song, 'March of the Men of Garlick' (Tune, Welsh melody)."
_Ripon Observer._
A pardonable mistake. The national emblem is of course the leek.
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[Illustration: THE WOOING.
MISS ULSTER. "AN' WHAT'S THE GOOD OF HIM SENDIN' ME FLOWERS WHEN I'VE
TOLD HIM 'NO' ALREADY?"
MR. PUNCH. "WELL NOW, COME, MY DEAR--WON'T YOU JUST TAKE A GOOD LOOK
AT THEM BEFORE YOU START TURNING UP YOUR PRETTY NOSE?"]
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[Illustration: "A HOLLOW DEMONSTRATION."
(_With acknowledgments to GILLRAY'S caricature of NAPOLEON as Gulliver
among the Brobdingnagians._)
[Mr. D. M. MASON'S motion for the reduction of the Supplementary Navy
Estimates was defeated by 237 votes to 34.]]
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