The sum of £91 11_s_. 0_d_. generously collected by various schools in
South Africa for the "Sporpot" (savings-box) fund, which was suggested
in these pages by Mr. Punch's friend, the late Mr. BERTRAM SMITH of
Beattock, has been distributed amongst the Belgian refugees who have
spent four and a half years of exile at Beattock and have just left to
return to their own country.
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[Illustration: A SPRING DEFENSIVE.
JOHN BULL. "I DON'T SAY IT QUITE MEETS THE CASE, BUT _(cheerfully)_
IT'S A SIZE LARGER THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE."]
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[Illustration: _Sandy (at Victoria Station)_. "GIE ME _THE PEEBLES
HERALD_."
_Attendant_. "WE DON'T KEEP IT."
_Sandy_. "THEN JUST GIE ME ONE O' YER LOCAL PAPERS."]
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