Punch is confident that his friends
will not allow our gallant sea-services to suffer through any need which it
is within their power to supply.
Cheques may be made payable to Admiral Lord BERESFORD, and addressed to the
Hon. Secretary, Ladies' Emergency Committee of the Navy League, 56, Queen
Anne Street, Cavendish Street, W.
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"L1 REWARD.--Lost, Umbrella, engraved W.C.B. 1865-1915."--_The Times_.
We do not believe that such a faithful friend is lost; it has simply gone
out to celebrate its jubilee.
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"FOOD IN FRANCE.
A friend who was in France last week tells me that the only cheap
article of diet just now is eggs, which are about 1-1/2d. each. Meat,
he said, averages 5f. a kilo, which is about the equivalent of 5s. a
pound."--_Daily Mirror_.
No wonder we are not allowed to have the metric system.
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[Illustration: HUMOURS OF A REMOUNT DEPOT.
_Sergeant._ "FRIGHTENED OF 'IM, ARE YOU? DIDN'T YOU 'AVE NOTHIN' TO DO WITH
ANIMALS BEFORE YE JOINED UP?"
_Recruit.
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