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"The Mahogany Tree."
A correspondent writes to Mr. Punch: "In this season's _Printer's
Pie_ your old friend and mine, Sir HENRY LUCY, speaks of '"the old
mahogany tree" in Bouverie Street, under which THACKERAY for a while
sat.' This tantalising sidelight makes many of us pine for fuller
information. Did the incident occur on some particular occasion,
or did the great novelist make a practice of this engaging form
of self-effacement?"
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"At a camp in Essex New Zealand troops joined with the local
school children in the celebrations. The men paraded and the New
Zealand flag was saluted. Afterwards there was a march past; the
National Anthem, Kipling's 'Recessional,' and 'Lest we Forget'
were sung."--_The Times._
Mr. KIPLING seems to have got an encore.
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