"Sworn Evidence of Torpedo."
_Liverpool Daily Post._
We hope it confessed its crime.
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"The village is in utter darkness these nights, and many of the
lamp-posts are getting severe knocks, not speaking of the foot
pedestrians."--_Ardrossan Herald._
Some of the foot pedestrians are said to have been less reticent about
the lamp-posts.
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"Would patriotic owner LEND INCUBATOR or Foster increase British
production, or buy cheap? Every care; experienced; eggs waiting;
ineligible; clergy ref."--_The Times._
It is a little cryptic; but we gather that, at any rate, the partial
soundness of these eggs will be guaranteed by the curate.
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[Illustration: _Sentry (at Remount Camp)._ "Halt! Who goes there?"
_Weary Voice._ "One friend and two mules."]
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