And learn as formula what they print as passion.

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_The Development of Africa_, by A.S. WHITE, is advertised. This
is White on Black, and no player in hand. It should be immediately
followed by _Black on White, or Who takes the Pool?_ Exciting match,
with one life each.

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[Illustration: CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED.

_Jones_. "CON-FOUND IT ALL! SOMEBODY'S TAKEN _MY_ HAT, AND LEFT THIS
FILTHY, BEASTLY, SHABBY OLD THING INSTEAD!"

_Brown_. "A--I BEG YOUR PARDON, BUT _THAT_ HAPPENS TO BE _MY_ HAT!"]

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KEPT IN THE STABLE.

_HEAD GROOM B-LF-R LOQ._:--

Kept in! Yes, by thunder! Be 't prudence or blunder,
Gov's fondness for _Tithe_, or bad weather, or what,
You're kept in the stable, though fit, ay, and able
To lead the whole field and to win by a lot.
A hunter I never bestrode half as clever!
_Tithe_? Pooh! _He_'s not in it, my beauty, with you.