_The King._ Gr-r-r.

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OUR HELPFUL GOVERNMENT.

"Don't grow potatoes where they will not grow. OFFICIAL
ADVICE."--_Daily Express._

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JOURNALISTIC MODESTY.

"The sale of yesterday's Christmas Number of the _Daily Gazette_
already exceeds that of last year's Christmas Number by more than 50
per cent. The sell is still going on actively."--_Daily Gazette
(Karachi)._

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"Yes, I think we have it at last--I mean the stranglehold round the
enemy's neck. I seem to hear the death rattle in his guttural
throat."--_Sunday Pictorial._

And to see the glazing of his ocular eyes.

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"Had you shut your eyes the opening night at the Opera you might have
fancied yourself back at Covent Garden, London, for the types of