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Flattery from the Front.

"I got your parcel quite undamaged, and it came at a time when we were
short of grub. I could have eaten a dead monkey, so your cake came in
very useful."

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"Major-General (Temporary General) Sir Hugh de la Poer Bough, K.C.B.,
whose name appears in the New Year list of honours as being promoted to
the rank of lieutenant-general, is a second cousin of Major-General
Hugh Sutlej Kough."--_Liverpool Echo_.

It is rumoured that he is also connected with that famous fighting family
the GOUGHS.

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A POSTSCRIPT.

(_Suggested by a later list of L. & N.W.R.
stations which have been closed._)

A further list of closured stations
Elicits further protestations.
Blank desolation, grim and stark,
Broods sadly o'er Carpenders Park,