"Businesses suitable for ex-soldiers: generals and others; taking
£40 wkly, price £35. Call or stamp."--_The Daily Chronicle_.

We can almost hear our Generals stamping.

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"It was an extremely difficult thing to effect a hit with
anti-aircraft guns. A 'ricohetting' pheasant was nothing
to it."--_The Globe_.

We take this remarkable bird to be a sort of bouncing "rocketer."

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Extract from a testimonial sent to a patent-medicine vendor:--

"If you remember I came to you three days after I was bitten
by my cat on the recommendation of a lady friend."--_Straits
Times_.

We think it was cowardly of the lady to employ an agent.

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[Illustration: THE BUSINESS OF THE MOMENT.

JOHN BULL. "I'VE LEARNED HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR ZEPP BROTHER, AND NOW
I'M GOING TO ATTEND TO YOU."]