Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 7, 1919. by Various
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price. They ought to go well with a kilt.
_To the Chairman of the "Société des Bains de Mer de Monaco_." Few people can have been better pleased than you at the cessation of hostilities. During all those terrible years the falling-off among the patrons of your world-famous bathing-establishment must have been a source of cruel grief to you. And now there are already myriads who have washed away the stains of war in the pellucid waves that lap your coast of azure. Here, too, at your hospitable Board of Green Cloth there is forgetfulness of Armageddon save when the cry of "Zéro" recalls to the convalescent British warrior the fateful hour for going over the top. And to think of Monte Carlo without the guttural Hun and his raucous "_Dass ist mein_" as he swoops upon his disputed spoils! An Eden with the worm away! _À bientôt_! O.S. * * * * * "PUBLIC SCHOOLS' HIGH JUMP CHALLENGE CUP.--E.C. Archer (Merchant Taylors'), 5 ft. 4 in. (unfinished), 1."--_The Times_. We are glad to have later advices which state that he has returned to |
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