HOPE YOU'LL COME AGAIN."]

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"More to the west the British marked fresh progress south of
Achiet-le-Petit, where their lines were advanced on a front of 2
kilometres (1-1/4 miles). Finally the Germans fell back for the length
of 2 kilometres (5/8 mile) between Essarts and Gommecourt."--_The
Evening News._

The road home always seems shorter.

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"The enemy went at the moment when he left because he was shelled
out."--_Daily Mail._

Of course he might have had a different motive if he had gone the moment
after he left.

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"She was wearing a three-quarter red coat with glass buttons to match a
heavy blue skirt with low neck."

We never have approved of these _décolletés_ skirts.

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[Illustration: _First Flapper._ "THE CHEEK OF THAT CONDUCTOR! HE GLARED AT