oring by individuals in the shape of rusks."--_Daily Chronicle_.

No authority for this remarkable statement is given, but we suspect the
_Russky Invalid_.

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"A trifle of a trinket for his women-folk is the only saving as an
insurance for the poor against famine and starvation for a rainless
day."--_A Native Writer in "The Times of India."_

KIPLING was right, East is East and West is West.

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"The undersigned has great pleasure in informing all the ladies,
gentlemen and the other travellers in the Station that a very nice
comfortable motor car can be obtained on hire from him for a walk in or
out of the Station for any period of time at very reasonable
charges."--_Peshawar Daily News_.

The petrol shortage evidently extends to India.

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"Ireland is accustomed to disappointment; she is accustomed to what she
signalises as betrayal, but her spirit remains unbroken, and she goes
on her way undaunted to seek, it may be by new methods and a new road,
her appointed gaol."--_Manchester Guardian._

Irishmen may justifiably resent this cynicism on the part of an old friend.

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[Illustration: A MODIFIED SALIENT.

_The Old 'Un (surveying recently called-up warrior)._ "WELL, JARGE, YOU'M
STILL TURR'BLE FAT, BUT THE ARMY DO ZEEM TO 'AVE REARRANGED IT, LIKE."]

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GOLD BRAID.

Same old crossing, same old boat,
Same old dust round Rouen way,
Same old narsty one-franc note,
Same old "Mercy, sivvoo play;"
Same old scramble up the line,
Same old 'orse-box, same old stror,
Same old weather, wet or fine,
Same old blooming War.

_Ho Lor, it isn't a dream,_
_It's just as it used to be, every bit;_
_Same old whistle and same old bang,_
_And me to stay 'ere till I'm 'it._

'Twas up by Loos I got me first;
I just dropped gently, crawled a yard
And rested sickish, with a thirst--
The 'eat, I thought, and smoking 'ard ...
Then someone offers me a drink,
What poets call "the cooling draft,"
And seeing 'im I done a think:
"_Blighty_," I thinks--and laughed.

I'm not a soldier natural,
No more than most of us to-day;
I runs a business with a pal
(Meaning the Missis) Fulham way;
Gree