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The formation of volunteer rifle corps, with a view to the protection of
life and property, will be strongly recommended.
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The rate of cab fares of the metropolis will continue at 4_s._ 6_d._ per
mile. Drivers, as heretofore, will be encouraged to enforce its payment
from a parsimonious British public.
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Greenwich Fair will present the usual endless variety of intellectual
recreations.
APRIL.
GREAT SELLS OF THE FIRST.
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A gentleman, invited out to dinner, will wait patiently in the belief
that his tailor really means to send home his new coat by four o'clock.
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The same gentleman's bootmaker will wait patiently in the belief that
his debtor really means to call and settle that little matter by four
o'clock.
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The printer's boy will be sent to our residence to ask for copy.
_Our_ boy will be despatched on an errand to the printer's to inquire
for proofs.
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The strictest discipline will be enforced among the Railway Companies'
officials.
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He hears, moreover, that the gold lies twenty-five feet below the
surface of the soil, and thinks he had better try if he could dig a hole
that deep. He takes up two flag stones in the back kitchen, and makes
the experiment.
Nor is he quite sure that his constitution will stand living in a tent.
He judges it expedient to contract for a month's residence with a
distinguished Egyptian family on Blackheath, by way of probation.
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GREAT IRISH FÊTE ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
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