"A Russian official accredited to this country, in an interview with a
representative of the Morning Post yesterday, said:--Potatoes."--
_Evening Times and Echo_ (_Bristol_).
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"I could well enter into the feelings of this lad's colonel when, with
a lint in his eye, he descrihimbed as 'a riceless youngster.'"--_Civil
and Military Gazette_.
We fear that the insertion of the bandage in the colonel's eye must have
prevented him from forming a true appreciation of the young fellow.
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