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[Illustration: _N.C.O._ "HERE! JUST GRAB THE OOJAH AN' DASH ROUND TO THE
TIDDLEY-OM-POM FOR SOME UMPTY-POO!"
Private (ex-professor of languages) learns later that he was expected to
fetch a bucket of coke from the stores.]
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"In a corn and meal merchant's shop, where two or three cats are kept
for business purposes, the cats may be seen feeding at will from the
open sacks."--_Spectator_.
This lapse on pussy's part goes rather against the grain.
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[Illustration: _Barber_. "MUCH OFF, SIR?"
_War Economist_. "DURATION OF WAR."]
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