_ "UMPH! NOT MUCH LIKE
A BULLOCK, ARE YER?"]
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IN MEMORY OF DORA.
(_A JOYOUS ANTICIPATION_.)
Walk very softly here and very slowly;
Let no sound pass the barrier of your teeth;
Not that the spot whereon you tread is holy,
But lest you rouse her up that lies beneath.
She ruthlessly curtailed our golf and skittles;
She vetoed daily sprees and nightly jinks;
She doled our baccy and weighed out our victuals,
And watered (cruellest of all) our drinks.
Anathema (by order) were our races;
Joy-riding was taboo in car or train;
And when they ventured to kick o'er the traces
She strafed her victims till they roared again.
Now where she sleeps the sleep that knows no waking
A simply graven sentence marks the place
(The Latin's shaky but bears no mistaking):--
"_Hic jacet DORA and hic let her jace_."
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AN UNHAPPY CHRISTMAS.
"A number of persons have booked dooms for Yuletide."--_Scottish
Paper._
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THE BROTHER SERVICE.
MR. PUNCH, DEAR SIR,--I am still with the Q.M.A.A.C.'s at what used
to be called the Front. But do not imagine I am cut off from news.
Papers from home pour in by every mail.
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