"
Asked what he thought of the PRIME MINISTER, he pondered deeply for a
while and then replied, in carefully measured tones, "I think him an
exceptional man."
Pressed as to the League of Nations, he considered the matter for some
minutes and then said, "It is a fine notion. We might all be the happier
if it came."
My time being now up he bowed me to the door and the interview was over.
The knob was of brass and had been, recently polished.
His last words were, "Mind the step."
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[Illustration: RECONSTRUCTION; A NEW YEAR'S TASK.]
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[Illustration: _Bore_. "I HAVE BEEN MAKING A VERY INTERESTING
CALCULATION. NOW, JUST HAVE A GUESS. IF ALL THE WOUND-STRIPES WERE
PLACED END TO END HOW FAR DO YOU THINK THEY WOULD REACH?"
_Weary Wounded._ "DUNNO, GUV'NOR. STEP IT OUT AND SHOW US."]
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[Illustration: _Officer (to whom private has given three ardent
love-letters, addressed to different persons, to censor)._ "WELL, WHAT
ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" _Private._ "'SCUSE ME, SIR, BUT I JUST WANTED TO
SEE YOU DIDN'T MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THE ENVELOPES."]
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THE ANTI-PICADORS.
A conference of subscribers and contributors to the correspondence
columns of _The Times_ was held at Caxton Hall on Saturday last, to
discuss the situation created in the issue of December 21st by the
printing of the interview with President WILSON in larger type than
had ever been used previously in the body of the paper.
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