Meanwhile the fact remains that it is dangerous to boast.

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[Illustration: _Tommy (back from Blighty)_. "YUS, I GRANT YER A BIT O'
LEAVE'S ALL RIGHT. BUT IT'S AWFUL DEPRESSIN', TOO, AT HOME--NOTHIN' BUT
WAR--WAR! IT GIVES YER THE FAIR 'UMP."]

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"JAPANESE POLITICS.

PRIME MINISTER'S ATTACK ON THE DIET."--_Daily Paper._

We wouldn't be the Food Controller in Japan for anything.

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"Wanted situation as Groom Coachman or Coachman General; disengaged
early in March; can milk and care motor if required."--_Irish Paper_.

A modern improvement, we suppose, on "the cow with the iron tail."

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"At a special meeting of the Duma held to-day, the Minister for
Agriculture, M. Rittich, in reply to an urgent question on the measures
for supplying Petrograd, stated the supplies were sufficient for the
present. Difficulties in purchase are due to excessive building and