Pursue the hedge's prickly pig,
Dine upon rabbits' eggs and dig
With practised paw and eager snuffle
The shy but oh! so toothsome truffle.
ALGOL.

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"A landslide in Monmouthshire threatens to close the natural course of
the River Ebbw, seriously interfering with its ffllww."--_Star_.

It certainly sounds rather diverting.

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From a list of gramophone records:--

"Nothing could seem easier in the wide world than the emission of the
cascade of notes that falls from the mouth of the horn--which might
indeed be Tetrazzini's own mouth."

"The diameter of my own gramophone horn is eighteen inches," writes the
sender of the extract.

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[Illustration: "THE ROAD TO VICTORY."

GERMANY. "ARE WE NEARLY THERE, ALL-HIGHEST?"