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"Good Servants of all kings required at once.--Apply Mrs. ----'s
Registry."--_Provincial Paper_.
There should be a good supply, as several monarchs have lately given
up housekeeping.
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"REQUIRED, ROMPOTER, to float £50,000 company for manufacturing
bricks for reconstruction. Curiosity mongers please
refrain."--_Daily Paper_.
But for the warning we should have been sorely tempted to inquire what
a "Rompoter" may be.
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[Illustration: "DORA" DISCOMFITED.
"DORA." "WHAT, NO CENSORSHIP?" [_Swoons._]
{The Foreign Office has announced that Press Correspondents' messages
about the Peace Congress will not be censored.}]
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[Illustration: _Jock_. "BON JOUR, M'SIEUR. NOUS AVONS REVENUS DE
PERMISSION ET NOUS SOMMES BLINQUANT MISERABLE. SI VOUS FEREZ MON
AMI DE SOURIRE, JE DONNERAI VOUS DIX FRANCS."]
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