"BUTCHER.--Wanted, Second Hand."--_Manchester Evening News_.
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"Southport. Mrs. ----, Homely Apts.; sea view; piano:
mod."--_Daily Paper_.
We approve Mrs. ----'s candour about the piano, which accords with our
own experience in seaside boarding-houses.
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"Germany recently began calling up Class 19120."--_Western Mail_.
The end of the War may be in sight, but it still seems to be some
distance off.
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"In districts where a number of shops were serving the same people
and streets, they would be asked to co-operate so that butcher,
baker and grocer would use the same vans. Traders who refused to
comply with the scheme would be dealt with."--_Evening Paper_.
But surely such unpatriotic shopkeepers should not be dealt with.
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"Lost, on or about September 30 last, a Gold Bar Brooch, with
chaste Scotch terrier in centre."--_Manchester Evening News_.
We are glad to see that at least one of our dumb friends has not
been affected by the wave of bigamy that has been sweeping over the
country.
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[Illustration: _Old hand_ (_supplying desired information to new
arrival_). "THOSE THINGS UP THERE? OH, THEY'RE CANTEENS FOR THE
R.F.C."]
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