Come and depart and come again,
They have seen strange disastrous things,
When fire and fume rolled o'er their nest;
But changeless and aloof they rest,
The Swans of Ypres, with folded wings.

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"Will Treasury notes ever be displaced by boxes of chocolates?
"--_Daily Paper_.

Certainly. Ours often are.

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From the report of the Committee on the Staffing of Government Offices
we gather that there has been a good deal of overflapping.

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[Illustration: TRANSPORT FACILITIES.]

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[Illustration: _Mistress._ "OH, JANE, HOW DID YOU DO THAT?"

_Maid._ "I'M VERY SORRY, MUM; I WAS ACCIDENTALLY DUSTING."]

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