[Illustration: _Recruit._ "EXCUSE ME, SIR, BUT HAVE THE GERMANS THE
SAME METHODS IN BAYONET-FIGHTING AS WE HAVE?"

_Instructor._ "LET'S HOPE SO. IT'S YOUR ONLY CHANCE."]

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COMMERCIAL CANDOUR.

From a company's report:--

"Interim dividend on the Ordinary snares for half-year ended July
31, 1917, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, less income
tax."--_Evening Paper._

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"A twelve-year-old boy was at Aberavon on Thursday sent to a
reformatory school for five years. He was charged with stealing
5-1/2 6-5/8 Nbegetable marrows from an allotment."--_Western
Mail._

It is supposed that he intended to reduce them to decimals.

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CRICKET.

There is no truth in the rumour that spectacular cricket is to be
resumed. It is perfectly true that a section of the public who are