The Kamina station will
not be able to reply until its new plant, which is being set
up with the utmost speed, has been completed."--_Reuter_.
Indeed, the opinion is held by some that it would be quicker to reply
by post.
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"The prison buildings themselves are separated from this
wall by a yard measuring twenty-five years across."--_Daily
Dispatch_.
Of course a yard ought to measure thirty-six inches.
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[Illustration: _English Horse Dealer (to Irish horse dealer from whom
he is buying a horse)._ "HOW'S HE BRED?"
_Irish Dealer_. "WELL, HOW WOULD YE LIKE HIM BRED? IF HE WAS FOR SIR
PATHRICK UP AT THE CASTLE HE'D BE BY RED EAGLE OUT AV AN ASECTIC MARE,
BUT YE CAN SUIT YERSILF."]
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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
_(By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks.)_
If for nothing else, Mr. JACK LONDON'S latest story would deserve a
welcome for its topicality. In these days of strikes and industrial
conflict every one might be glad to know what a writer of his
individuality has to say about unions and blacklegs and picketing.
True, this is hardly the kind of thing that one has learnt to
associate with his name; and for that reason perhaps I best liked _The
Valley of the Moon_ (MILLS AND BOON) after its hero and heroine had
shaken the unsavoury dust of the town from their feet and set them
towards the open country.
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