_
Notwithstanding the repetition of this statement we find great
difficulty in believing it.
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"SOLDIERS' CHRISTMAS GIFTS. POSTING DATES FOR EGYPT AND SALONIKA."
_Times._
It sounds a little like consigning coal to Newcastle.
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"AIR RAIDS.--Peaceful country rectory, Hampshire, well out of
danger zone, can receive three or four paying guests. Large
garden, beautiful scenery, high, bracing. Simple life. L10
each weekly."--_The Times._
This enterprising parson seems to have borrowed his recipe for the
simple life from GRAY'S _Elegy_:--
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenner of their way.
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BEASTS ROYAL.
IV.
KING HENRY'S STAG-HOUND. A.D. 1536.
Ten puffs upon my master's toes,
And twenty on his sleeves,
Upon his hat a Tudor rose
Set round with silver leaves;
But never a hunting-spear,
And never a rowel-spur;
Who is this that he calls his Dear?
I think I will bark at her.
The Windsor groves were fresh and green,
Dangling with Summer dew,
When my master rode with his Spanish queen,
And the huntsman cried, "Halloo!"
Now never a horn is heard,
And never the lances stir;
Who is this that he calls his Bird?
I think I will follow her.
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