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"A St. Cleather man, who had planted a wastrel, is to be invited
to attend the next meeting."--_Western Morning News_.

Surely they don't want the wastrel dug up again.

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[Illustration: FRATERNISING AT THE FRONT.

_Nervous Tommy_ (_on outpost duty for the first time_). "'OO GOES
THERE?"

_Bosch Scout_. "FRIEND."

_Tommy_. "ADVANCE AN' BE RECONCILED."]

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A NEW USE FOR LATIN.

BY OUR CLASSICAL EXPERT.

"Greek is in the last ditch," writes Sir HENRY NEWBOLT in his _New
Study of English Poetry_; "Latin is trembling at sight of the thin
edge of the wedge." Still a hope of saving Latin--within limits--yet
remains, if the appeal of "Kismet" in _The Spectator_ meets with a
sympathetic response. He asks the readers of that journal "to render