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"What," said Francesca, "does this man mean?"
"He means," I said, "those delightful and lingering committee
meetings, when you have nearly separated and suddenly remember all the
subjects you have forgotten."
"Now," she said, "you are really funny."
"I'm a man and can only do my best."
"That's the pity of it; but now you've got the women to help you."
"So I have. Well, _au revoir_ in the polling-booth."
"Anyhow, _? bas_ the smoking-room."
R.C.L.
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[Illustration: WAR ECONOMY.
_Aunt Liz_. "WHERE YER GOIN', TINY?" _Tiny_. "PICTURES."
_Aunt Liz_. "GOT YER MONEY?" _Tiny_. "NO."
_Aunt Liz_. "WHAT YER GOIN' TO DO, THEN?" _Tiny_. "SHOVE IN."
_Aunt Liz_. "ALL RIGHT. MIND YER DON'T GET RUNNED OVER."]
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"Hot pennies and halfpennies were thrown from the windows
at a West Hartlepool wedding party. One fell down the
back of a schoolboy, burning him, and has been awarded
?5 damages."--_Eastern Dally Press_.
And did the poor boy get nothing?
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"The Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury has a very full
agenda. Reports of the respective Joint Committees on the Royal
Letters of Business, Purity of Life and the Revision of the
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