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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 17, 1917 by Various
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MORE SEX PROBLEMS.

From a stock-auction report:--

"THE BULL CALVES. THE BULL CALVES."
_Glasgow Herald._

Notwithstanding the repetition of this statement we find great
difficulty in believing it.

* * * * *

"SOLDIERS' CHRISTMAS GIFTS. POSTING DATES FOR EGYPT AND SALONIKA."
_Times._

It sounds a little like consigning coal to Newcastle.

* * * * *

"AIR RAIDS.--Peaceful country rectory, Hampshire, well out of
danger zone, can receive three or four paying guests. Large
garden, beautiful scenery, high, bracing. Simple life. £10
each weekly."--_The Times._

This enterprising parson seems to have borrowed his recipe for the
simple life from GRAY'S _Elegy_:--

Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenner of their way.

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