ll sides sufficient ground for thinking that there
are few finer fields for observation just at present than the field at
Chobham; although, as an area for military manoeuvering, it is not to
be compared with many an area in Knightsbridge.

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WHAT IS A CABMAN'S MILE?

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The question of "What is a Mile?" is likely to take its place by the
side of the important question "What is a Pound?" in the annals of
political--or some other kind of--economy. Since the new Act has come
into force--or rather into operation, for its potency is not yet much
felt--there has been a fearful conflict of opinion between the
cab-drivers and the public as to what is a mile. It is evident that
there must be an appendix added to all the books on arithmetic, for the
purpose of including Cab Measure, which is quite distinct from any other
measure we have yet met with, and is about as diametrically opposed to
Long Measure, as chalk is to any caseal or curdy compound. In the eyes
of a cabman, "a miss is as good as a mile;" in fact, anything is as good
as a mile for his--that is to say for his passenger's--money.

Any one who takes a cab from the West End to go over the water, whether
by Westminster or Waterloo, may think himself fortunate if he is not
involved in a sort of "Six-Mile-Bridge affair," by the demand of the
cabman for three shillings, as the fare for passing one of the bridges.
We can scarcely wonder at the easy familiarity of a cab-driver; for
there is no one who seems so utterly incapable of keeping his distance.
We trust, however, that the new Act will enable us to have justice
brought to our own door, by handing a cabman at once over to the police,
when a driver gives us a good setting down in a double sense, by
insulting us after taking us to our destination. We may, in fact, now
hope that a cabman's abuse--as well as his distance--will have to be
measured.

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A DETERMINED DUELLIST.

It is said that a celebrated, otherwise a notorious peer, disappointed
of satisfaction at the hands of a certain illustrious Earl, has, in his
despair, resolved to call out the Man in the Moon. He will quite as soon
take the shine out of him as out of the distinguished Earl in question.
But then it must not be forgotten that the challenger is a "LONG" shot.

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AN UNDERTAKER'S LIVE JOB.

A Cabman, who does no