TUBES.

A picture of a widow wringing her hands with grief, and under it

this pungent hint: "This is the widow of a man who tried to light his

cigarette on the 'live rail.'"

A picture of a man who has been cut in half, with, say, a crisp little

couplet:--

"Here are two portions of Benjamin Yates

Who scorned the request to 'stand clear of the gates.'"

A photograph of the interior of a hospital ward full of patients,

with the following: "Interior of a ward in the Bakerdilly Hospital,

exclusively for patients who stepped off the moving staircase with the

wrong foot."

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