We know one or two "talking families" that we should be glad to
export.

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"In finding the defendant £3, Mr. Price told the defendant
that he would get into serious trouble if he persisted in his
conduct."--_Evening Paper_.

And he may not meet such a generous magistrate next time.

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"Englishman, well educated, desires afternoon engagement;
experienced in the care of children; good needlewoman; or
would assist light housework."--_Canadian Paper_.

We hope we shall hear no further complaints from Canada that
Englishmen are not adaptable.

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COMMUNICATIONS.

I was sitting in the Club, comfortably concealed by sheets of a
well-known journal, when two voices, somewhere over the parados of the
deep arm-chair, broke in upon my semi-consciousness.

"... Then poor old Tubby, who hasn't recovered from his 1918 dose of
shell-shock, got a go of claustrophobia and felt he simply had to get