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"Whatever other defects may be alleged against the scarlet
uniform, it certainly makes for two things--discipline and
smartness--and these two are very important factors in
discipline."
_"Civil and Military Gazette," Lahore._
Especially the former.
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"During the night, she [Mrs. Hamilton, the Channel swimmer] said,
'I occasionally took hot drinks and ate cold roast chicken, the
small bones of which I kept chewing, as it seemed to assist
me....'
A strict vegetarian, Mrs. Hamilton will sometimes swim five miles
before dinner, and skips for a few minutes every day."
_Scotch Paper._
She should skip the chicken if she wants us to be excited about her
strict vegetarianism.
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DOGGEREL.
TO THE PRIME MINISTER'S ST. BERNARD PUP.
Ere your native country figured as the home of winter sport,
Paradise of spies and agents, and for kings a last resort;
Ere the hospitable chamois lent his haunts to Bolsh and Hun
Or the queue of rash toboggans took the curve of Cresta Run;
Long before a locomotive climbed the Rigi, cog by cog,
Fame had mentioned your forefathers--such a noble breed of dog,
How they tracked the lonely traveller with their nimble, sleuthy snouts,
Till beneath a billowy snowdrift they remarked his whereabouts.
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