Joyfully he climbed on the barrel and bit at the fruit.
Then he jumped down with a bark of disgust.
The grapes _were_ sour.
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"Mutiny aboard a German U-boat, aided by the demolarizing effects of a
submarine bomb, made the diver a prize of the British Admiralty and her
crew the willing prisoners of a patrol boat."--_Ottawa Evening
Journal._
This kind of bomb--the demolariser--is just what we want to draw the
enemy's teeth.
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[Illustration: THE END OF THE THOUSAND-AND-ONE NIGHTS.
THE OFFICIAL STORY-TELLER (_to Wilhelm-al-Raschid_). "I CAN'T THINK OF ANY
FRESH FAIRY TALES. WOULD YOU LIKE A TRUE ONE NOW?"
[April 30th was the thousand-and-first day of the War.]]
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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
_Monday, April 23rd._--Any intelligent foreigner who obtained admission to
the Distinguished Strangers' Gallery in the expectation that on the
feast-day of our national saint and the birthday of our national poet he
would be privileged to listen to a series of eloquent speeches upon
patriotism, delivered by our most accomplished orators, must have been
deeply disappointed.
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