"Other houses have a good many books which have come down
from posterity, mostly in odd volumes."--_"Claudius Clear"
in "The British Weekly."_

Some of those that we bequeath to our ancestors will be quite as odd.

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It is rumoured that during the period of food-control a well-known
Soho restaurant intends to change its name to the "Rhondda-vous."

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[Illustration: _Busy City-man to his Partner_ (_as one of the new
air-raid warnings gets to work_). "IF YOU'LL LEAVE ME IN HERE FOR THE
WARNINGS I'LL CARRY ON WHILE YOU TAKE SHELTER DURING THE RAIDS."]

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THE LITTLE THINGS.

I used to be a peaceful chap as didn't ask for trouble,
An' as for rows an' fightin', why, I'd mostly rather not,
But now I'd charge an army single-'anded at the double,
An' it's all along o' little things I've learned to feel so 'ot.

It's 'orrid seein' burnin' farms, which I 'ave often seen 'ere,
An' fields all stinks an' shell-'oles, an' the dead among the flowers,
But the thing I've 'ated seein' all the bloomin' time I've been 'ere