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[Illustration: SCENE: _A lonely road somewhere in France._
_Diminutive Warrior_ (_suddenly confronted with ferocious specimen of the
local fauna_). "LUMME! IF IT AIN'T THE REGIMENTAL COAT-OF-ARMS COME TO
LIFE!"]
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"The Wady Ghuzzeh, or river of Gaza, a stream-bed which makes no large
assertion on the map. But it 'just divides the desert from the sewn.'"
--_Sunday Paper_.
Being, as you might say, a mere thread.
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Extracts from an article entitled "London Sights: An Australian's
Impressions":--
"When all is over and we are back where the coyote cries ... when the
Rockies are looking down at us from their snowy heights, and the
night-time silence steals across the fir-bordered
foothills...."--_Sunday Times_.
Yet what is all this to the longing of the Canadian for the nightly howl of
the kangaroo and the song of the wombat flitting among the blue-gums in his
native bush?
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According to a French philosopher mankind is divided into two categories,
_Les Huns et les autres_.
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"Sydney, January 2.
Concurrently with the inauguration of the new time schedule at 2 a.m.
on Monday a violent earth tremor was experienced at Orange. An
accompanying noise lasted about a half minute."--_Brisbane Courier_.
Another family quarrel between [Greek: Kronos] and [Greek: Gê].
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"Petrograd, Wednesday,
The Council of Workmen's Delegates has issued an appeal to the
proletariat, which contains the following striking passage: We shall
defend our liberty to the utmost against all attacks within and
without. The Russian revolution will not quail before the bayca fwyaa,
mfwyawayqawyqa."--_Dublin Evening Mail_.
If that won't frighten it nothing will.
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[Illustration: "YOU WOULDN'T THINK IT TO LOOK AT 'IM, BUT WHEN I SAYS
''ANDS UP,' 'E ANSWERS BACK IN PUFFICK ENGLISH, 'STEADY ON WITH YER
BLINKIN' TOOTHPICK,' 'E SEZ, 'AND I'LL COME QUIET.'"]
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