ECONOMY.

Seen in a Birmingham shop window:

"SECOND & FURNITURE."

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[Illustration: A BAD DREAM.

SPECTRE. "WELL, IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE LOOK OF ME, EAT LESS BREAD."]

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ON THE SPY-TRAIL.

Jimmy says he thought there must he something the matter with Jones
minimus, he was so gloomy.

He actually told Jimmy that he wished he was in heaven. Jimmy had to
tell him not to say such wicked things, because sometimes when you
wished things like that they came true, and then where would Jones
minimus be?

Jimmy says it takes a lot to make Jones minimus gloomy, but it turned
out that he had lost the War Loan; he had either lost or mislaid it,
he told Jimmy.

It was on a card, and Jones minimus only wanted another shilling to