From a stock-auction report:--

"THE BULL CALVES. THE BULL CALVES."

_Glasgow Herald._

Notwithstanding the repetition of this statement we find great

difficulty in believing it.

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"SOLDIERS' CHRISTMAS GIFTS. POSTING DATES FOR EGYPT AND SALONIKA."

_Times._

It sounds a little like consigning coal to Newcastle.

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"AIR RAIDS.--Peaceful country rectory, Hampshire, well out of

danger zone, can receive three or four paying guests. Large

garden, beautiful scenery, high, bracing. Simple life. £10

each weekly."--_The Times._

This enterprising parson seems to have borrowed his recipe for the

simple life from GRAY'S _Elegy_:--

Along the cool sequester'd vale of life

They kept the noiseless tenner of their way.

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