"WANTED, few cwt. White Sugar, cart self; pay cash; state
price."--_Manchester Guardian_.

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"M. Trepoff accepted the leadership of the Right in the Council of
Empire after the party had pledged itself to eschew a retrograd
course."--_Manchester Evening Chronicle_.

Preferring a Petrograd one, of course.

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"His Majesty's Government has declared that it is ready to grant
sage-conducts to Count Bernstorff and the Embassy and Consular
personnel."--_Daily Mail_.

Hitherto his Excellency has been sadly lacking in this hyphenated article.

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THE HARDSHIPS OF BILLETS.

II.

Nobody knows the misery of bein' lapped in luxury in a billet better than
me and Jim. Mrs. Dawkins, as I told you, give us the best of everything in
the 'ouse and our lives wasn't worth livin' owin' to Mr. Dawkins and the
little Dawkinses and a young man lodger takin' against us in consekence.
Seein' that they 'adn't a bed between 'em while we was given one apiece and