nly run, you little
devil, run!"

"But you, Sir?" he stuttered.

"Oh, don't worry about me," I smiled; "I shall be _quite_ all right.
I'm going to lay all the blame on you."

He shot one scared glance, at me, then, picking up the skirts of his
dressing-gown, scampered off down the road as fast as his ammunition
boots would let him, never looking back.

PATLANDER.

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[Illustration: ANOTHER THREATENED INDUSTRY. CHANNEL STEWARD (_infected
with the prevailing strike mania_). "ANY MORE TALK ABOUT THIS TUNNEL
AND I DOWN BASINS!"]

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[Illustration: THE HUNTER BAULKED OF HIS PREY.]

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COMMERCIAL CANDOUR.

"They were manufacturers of aeroplanes--in their opinion
the best aeroplanes in the world and the most suited for
commercial lying."--_Provincial Paper_.
* * * * *

"A hospital nurse interrupted evidence given in Portuguese at
Thames Police Court on Saturday."--_Provincial Paper._

Very rude of her.

* * * * *

"An experimental air service for Army mails only was begun
a few days ago between Folkestone and Boulogne, with
intermediate points in Belgium, said Mr. Illingworth,
Postmaster-General."--_Daily Chronicle._

"We are a long way yet from the mastery of the air. Out of
fifteen days the Prime Minister's Paris postbag, which it had
been arranged should be sent 'via aloft,' had to go by the old
land and water route in fourteen days."--_Daily Mirror_.

Even that, we suppose, was quicker than to send it by the circuitous
air-route _via_ Belgium.

* * * * *

"Section-Commander ----, who has had charge of the ----
Special Constabulary since their inception, has been
presented by the members with a Sheraton clock at a wind-up
dinner."--_Local Paper_.

It was, of course, the clock that had the wind up, not the
Section-Commander.

* * * * *

"FOREIGN DIPLOMATS TAKE TO PRESIDENT. His Ability in Dealing
with Them Exceeds the Most Sanguinary Expectations."--_New
York Times_.

We shall have to revise our conception of Mr. WILSON as a man of
peace.

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[Illustration: _Rearguard Officer of Demobilization (collecting
stragglers on route-march)._