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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 17, 1917"

'"
C.F.S.
* * * * *
A GOOD DAY'S WORK.
"He left Flanders on leave at one o'clock yesterday morning
and was in London after fourteen months' fighting before
sundown."--_Daily News_.
* * * * *
"Why can't we find machies for long-distance raids since Germans
can?"--_Evening News_.
Personally, if distance is required, we prefer a brassie. We can only
assume that the iron club is chosen in consequence of the number of
bad lies there are about.
* * * * *
On the German Naval mutiny:--
"They may be divided into two camps. One holds that it is not
an affair to which too much importance can be attached; the
other that it is an affair to which one cannot attach too much
importance."--_Star_.
We cannot help feeling that these two factions might safely be
accommodated in the same camp.
* * * * *
[Illustration: A LONG-SIGHTED PATRIOT.
_Aunt Susie (whose charity begins as far as possible from home)._
"HAVE YOU FOUND OUT WHETHER THEY WEAR KNITTED SOCKS IN ARGENTINA?"]
* * * * *
AT THE PLAY.
"ONE HOUR OF LIFE."
In Captain DESMOND COKE'S extravaganza a group of philanthropists
adopt the time-honoured procedure of ROBIN HOOD and his Greenwood
Company, robbing Dives on system to pay Lazarus.


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