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=A Hot Spell.=
From a story for boys:--
"The heat was so intense that we were perspiring from every paw."
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[Illustration: SNOWED UNDER.
THE ST. BERNARD PUP (_to his Master_). "THIS SITUATION APPEALS TO MY
HEREDITARY INSTINCTS. SHALL I COME TO THE RESCUE?"
[Before leaving Switzerland Mr. LLOYD GEORGE purchased a St. Bernard
pup.]]
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[Illustration: _Futurist to Brother Brush (after along country walk in
search of a subject)._ "THIS IS RATHER JOLLY. WHAT A RELIEF IT IS TO
GET AMONGST THE REAL JAGGED STUFF."]
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THE OLD WOMAN'S HOUSE ROCK, SCILLY.
"Old woman, old woman, old woman," said I,
"'Tis a mighty queer place to be building a home
In the teeth of the gales and the wash of the foam,
With nothing in view but the sea and the sky;
It cannot be cheerful or healthy or dry.
Why don't you go inland and rent a snug house,
With fowls in the garden and blossoming boughs,
Old woman, old woman, old woman?" said I.
"A garden have I at my hand
Beneath the green swell,
With pathways of glimmering sand
And borders of shell.
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