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It is reported that the paper shortage is soon to be remedied. In
these days of expensive boots this should be good news to people who
travel to and from the City by Tube on foot.

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We hear privately that one of our leading dailies has fixed April 14th
as the date on which its office "correspondent" will first hear the
note of the cuckoo in Epping Forest.

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Several suspicious cases of sickness are reported among the aborigines
of New South Wales. It is not yet known whether they are due to
influenza or to the native custom of partaking heavily of snakepie on
the eve of Lent.

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Nottingham will hold its six hundred and fifty-eighth annual Goose
Fair this year, and a local paper has made a distinct hit by stating
that it is "the oldest gathering of its kind except the House of
Commons."

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President EBERT, according to the _Frankfort Gazette_, is to have a