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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 by Various
page 41 of 53 (77%)

The two extra ones, it is understood, came from HINDENBURG'S "strategic
reserve."

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"It is expected that an official announcement will shortly be made of a
scheme which will put practically the whole of the topmaking industry
of Bradford at the disposal of the Government."--_Daily Telegraph._

That ought to make things hum.

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"Napoleon was desolated were he left in the same room with a cat ...
but he was not in the least afraid of being alone in the same room with
Anne of Austria, whose claws were of a far more formidable capacity."--
_West Australian._

NAPOLEON'S intrepidity may have been due to his knowledge that ANNE of
Austria died about a century before he was born.

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[Illustration: "MY POOR REGINALD IS IN 'ORSPITAL WITH RHEUMATICS IN HIS
LEGS. THE SCOTCH COSTUME, YOU KNOW."]

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AT THE PLAY.
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