home. Treated as _one_ of the family."--_Daily Paper_.

The italics emphasize our own feeling with regard to this niggardly
arrangement.

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"V.A.D.--Required for Shell-shock Hospital under B.R.C.S.,
Piano, Billiard Table and Gramophone. Will any hospital
closing down and having same for sale, kindly communicate
with Secretary."--_Times_.

We do not know what sort of work the V.A.D. is expected to do under
the piano and billiard table, but we presume that her consent would be
required, and that she would not be sold, so to speak, over her own
head.

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[Illustration: THE TURN OF THE TIDE.

JOHN BULL. "I DON'T SAY I'M QUITE COMFORTABLE YET, BUT I CERTAINLY DO
SEEM TO BE GETTING IT A LITTLE LESS IN THE NECK."]

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[Illustration: SCENE.--_AMATEUR THEATRICAL REHEARSAL_.

_Author_. "NOT SO MUCH 'GAGGING,' MY LAD. JUST SPEAK _MY_ LINES, AND
THEN WAIT FOR THE LAUGH."