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PRESENT! FIRE! BANG-KOK!--"Three Frenchmen killed, two wounded; twenty
Siamese killed, and twelve wounded,"--such is the first result of
French _Humann_-ising influence in Siam.
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A NEW MARITIME RESORT.--"I'm sure," observed Mrs. R., "that a really
pleasant thing to do in the summer holidays would be to take a trip to
the Specific Islands."
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THE GREATEST AUTHORITY ON THE WORKING OF THE "IN-AND-OUT"
CLAUSES.--Mr. SEXTON, M.P.!
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GOING AGAINST THE GREIN.--Refusing to patronise the Independent
Theatre.
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FRENCH BILLIARDS AT SIAM.--The Cannon Game.
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Transcriber's Note:
This issue contains some dialect.
Sundry damaged or missing punctuation has been repaired.
Page 25: 'abreviating' corrected to 'abbreviating'.
"... as emphasizing, by descriptively abbreviating, these two
epithets,..."
Page 30: 'Nickledy Nod' is correct.
[www . archive.org/stream/laysandlyrics00hawkgoog#page/n124].
(From: "Lays and Lyrics": Nickledy Nod.
Dedicated to the "Sweet Girl Graduates of the School of Cookery."
(After Punch.))
Page 33: 'where corrected to 'were'.
"True, for our wages, which were somewhere near the "Twenty-ones,"
Great expectations would have been a trifle rash."
Page 34: 'nihil tetigit quod non ornavit' = 'he touched nothing
without embellishing it'.
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