We wish sometimes that our conditions were changed as easily as our
signs.

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[Illustration: _Dugal._ "I DOOT, TAMMAS, THERE'S SOME INFORMEESHUN
THAT MAN LLOYD GEORGE HAS GOT THAT WE HAVENA GOT."]

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ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.

"The Lord Provost will preside over the meeting at which Mr.
Churchill will speak in Dundee this afternoon.

Many thousands of people are leaving Dundee for their annual
holiday."--_Manchester Daily Dispatch_.

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"Mr. Alderman Domoney, in remanding at the Guildhall to-day
two boys charged with theft, said he always liked to deal
leniently with boys so young and to give the ma fresh start
in life."--_Evening Paper_.

Not a word about the pa, you observe; yet we daresay he was equally
responsible.

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