Personally we should place these admirable birds in a class by
themselves.

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"HUNT FOR CIGARETTES.

STATE CONTROL ENDS, BUT SUPPLY STILL SCARCE."--_Daily Chronicle_.

Is this the fag-end of State control, or the State control of
fag-ends?

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"Girl, about 18, for grocery; permanency; experience not
necessary; must love locally."--_Daily Paper_.

But we doubt if this attempt to constrain the tender passion within
geographical limits will prove a "permanency."

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There was a young man from Dundee
Who didn't succeed with the Sea;
So they gave him command
Of the Air and the Land
Just to make it quite fair for all three.

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