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DWARFS.--Of course there are dwarfs. Lots of 'em all over the world. At
least no experienced traveller ever yet made a stay in any country without
becoming acquainted with plenty of people who were "uncommonly 'short' just
at that moment,"--"that moment" being when the impecunious traveller wanted
to obtain a slight loan. The author of _Borrow in Spain_ would have been an
authority on such a subject.
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TRANSFORMATION SCENE.--Dear Sir, I see by the paper that "Mr. EDMUND YATES
has been made a J. P." Odd! What does "J. P." stand for? Oh, of course,
"JOE PARKINSON." But does "E. Y." on becoming "J. P." cease to be
"MOI-MÊME"?--Yours, M. MUDDLE.
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[Illustration: A TOO INQUIRING MIND.
"HOW WAS _I_ MADE, MAMMIE DARLING? WAS I _KNITTED_?"]
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