ngratulated by
the COLONIAL SECRETARY on his appointment. Mr. LONG might have been a
shade less enthusiastic if he had foreseen the sequel. His assurance
that there was "nothing behind the Bill" was only too true. There was
not even a majority behind it; for the hostile amendment was carried
by 44 votes to 35, and the LLOYD GEORGE Administration sustained its
first defeat. "Nasty slippery stuff, oil," muttered the Government
Whip.

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[Illustration: THE UNSEEN HAND.

_Bill_. "A FELLER IN THIS HERE PAPER SAYS AS WE AIN'T FIGHTING THE
GERMAN PEOPLE."

_Gus_. "INDEED! DOES THE BLINKIN' IDIOT SAY WHO WE'VE BEEN UP AGAINST
ALL THIS TIME?"]

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"Wanted, at once, three Slack Carters; constant
employment."--_Lancaster Observer_.

We fear that intending applicants may be put off by the conditions.

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"WHERE MY CARAVAN HAS RESTED--in A flat."--_Advt. in Provincial
Paper_.

And, in the recent weather, a very good place for it.

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WAR-TIME TAGS FROM "JULIUS CAESAR."

A "TAKE COVER" CONSTABLE TO A "SPECIAL."

"I'll about,
And drive away the vulgar from the streets;
So do you too, where you perceive them thick."--_Act I. Sc. 1_.

A WISE MAN.

"Good night, then, Casca: this disturbed sky
Is not to walk in."--_Act I. Sc. 3_.

A RASH MAN.

"For my part, I have walked about the streets...
Even in the aim and very flash of it."--_Act I. Sc. 3_.

TO A MUNITION STRIKER.

"But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day?"--_Act I. Sc. 1_.

TO A LADY CLERK.

"Is this a holiday?
What dost thou with thy best apparel on?"--_Act I. Sc. 1_.

TO LORD RHONDDA
(_with a whear and potato war-loaf_).

"Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this."--_Act I. Sc. 2_.

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THE TRANSLATOR SEES THROUGH IT.

Announcement by a French publisher:--

"Vient de paraitre:--'M. Britling commence a voir clair.'"

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"MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

A Large Quantity of Old Bricks for Sale."--_Dublin Evening
Herald_.

Do not shoot the pianist. Throw a brick at him instead.

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Regarding a certain judge:--

"Hence so many reversals by the Court of Appeal that suitors
were often more uneasy if they lost their