Also there, again, the infantry had to
bear the grunt.'"--_Northern Whig._
The Imperial euphemism, we suppose, for the cry of "Kamerad!"
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THE NEW RATIONS.
"Joint Hospital Board, ----, 14th April, 1917. The above Board require
two Probationer Nurses for their Consumption."--_Provincial Paper._
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A correspondent having observed in a morning paper the headline,
"Pomeranians Surrender!" sends us a suggested contents-bill for _The
Barking Gazette_:--
GREAT CAPTURE OF POMS!
PEKINESE BREAK OFF RELATIONS.
GREAT DANES NEUTRAL.
RAID BY TERRITORIAL FLYING CORPS
(SKY TERRIERS).
ROUT OF DALMATIANS.
FIELD-GREYHOUNDS DRIVEN OFF.
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THE ADJUTANT ON LEAVE.
"Leave, I'm afraid," remarked the Adjutant, standing with his back to the
fire and hitching his bath towel more securely over his left shoulder, "can
only be granted now in special circumstances."
Flying being prevented for that afternoon by the weather conditions, we had
been playing hockey, and the Adjutant, who by virtue of seniority had just
had first go at the bathroom, was in a warm and expansive mood.
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