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From a shoemaker's advertisement:

"ROUGH BOYS WELL LEATHERED."--_High River Times_ (_Alberta,
Canada_).

The good old slipper has not outlived its usefulness.

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"To all anonymous correspondents who have recently written to me I have
the honour to reply that they are all blackguards."--_Advt. in
Ceylon Paper._

Though we ourselves should have waived this honour we are in full sympathy
with the writer.

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[Illustration: "OH! DO WEAR YOUR KHAKI TIE, DAD, OR ELSE NO ONE WILL KNOW
YOU'RE A SOLDIER."]

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TRAVEL WITHOUT TRAINS.

(_Suggested by some recent remarks in "The Observer" on eccentric place
names._)