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C.F.S.
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"Would the Lady who took the Wrong Patent Leather Shoe (right) from
---- on 7th instant return same?"--_Provincial Press_.
And then she can recover the right shoe which was left.
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"Bethnal Green Military Hospital, formerly an infirmary, names its
wards after British virtues, thus:--Courage, Truth, Fortitude, Loyalty,
Justice, Honour, Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Mercy, Grace, Candour,
Innocence, and Patience."--_Evening Standard_.
We note with regret the omission of that eminently British virtue,
Humility.
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[Illustration: THE CATCH OF THE SEASON.
CONDUCTORETTE (_to Mr. ASQUITH_). "COME ALONG, SIR. BETTER LATE THAN
NEVER."]
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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
_Monday, March 26th._--Major PRETYMAN NEWMAN has a bright sense of humour
much appreciated by his fellow-countrymen from Ireland. His latest notion
is that journals "of a comic and serio-comic nature" should be deprived of
their stocks of paper in order that catalogues and circulars should
continue to appear.
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