"--_Times._
Or, as SHAKSPEARE himself is said to have exclaimed, as he penned the
last line of it, "That's the stuff to give 'em."
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"There should also be mentioned the merchants' bank, Towarzystwo
Pozyczkowe Przemyslowcow Miasta Poznania."
_Journal of the Royal Statistical Society._
We have tried to mention it, but failed miserably.
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"The Major then spoke of battles in which he had taken part. He had
been wounded in the back leg and arm."--_Evening News._
Bit of a dog, this Major.
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"PROMOTION.-Rifleman P.R. Shand to be Sergeant Cock."--_Ceylon
Paper._
We hope Sergeant Cock was consulted about this.
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[Illustration: "IS THAT AN OFFICIAL LETTER YOU ARE WRITING, MISS BROWN?"
"IT'S--SEMI-OFFICIAL, SIR."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SEMI-OFFICIAL?"
"WELL, SIR--IT'S TO AN OFFICER."]
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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
_(BY MR. PUNCH'S STAFF OF LEARNED CLERKS.)_
Not infrequently our novelists will follow success with a boy hero by a
sequel showing the same character grown up. Mr. E.F. BENSON, however,
has reversed this process, and in a second book about _David Blaize_
introduces him grown not up, but down.
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