"Northumberland Miners' Executive have decided to have Mr. Robert
Smillie's portrait painted in oils for Burt Hall, Newcastle.
Other matter relating to the coal crisis appears on Page Eleven."--
_Daily Telegraph._
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"DAY BY DAY.
Well, did you get your gun and have a shot at the pheasants and the
partridges yesterday?"--_Scotch Paper, Sept. 2nd._
Naturally; the same gun with which we knocked the grouse over in July.
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"TEMP. IN SHADE.--Max. of past 24 hours. Hyderabad (Sind) ... 941·2."--
_Indian Paper._
Good for the Sinders.
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"One Dog with fairy tail came to my house, ----, Srimanta Dey's Lane,
may be restored to the owner on satisfactory proof."--_Statesman
(Calcutta)._
The evidence of a dog like that would of course be useless.
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"The Cathedral Choristers received a flattening reception."--
_Provincial Paper._
That should "learn" them to sing sharp.
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There was a young man of Combe Florey
Who wrote such a gruesome short story,
_The English Review_
Found it rather too blue
And MASEFIELD pronounced it too gory.
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