'Mailed Fish.'"--_Manchester Evening News_.

The very man for a submarine campaign.

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"The main goal for which our troops went was the Oppy switch
line, a hastily constructed main goal for which our troops
went was the Oppy switch line, a hastily constructed trench
system by which the Germans have extended their Hindenburg
line northwards."--_Sunday Paper_.

Some of our contemporary's own lines seem also to have been rather
hastily constructed.

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NATIONAL SERVICE;

OR, THE SINGLE EYE.

Good Jones, who saw his duty plain,
Resolved he would not live in vain;
He bought some land and made a start,
He gave up literature and art,
He studied books on what to grow,
He studied Mr. PROTHERO;
He worked from early dawn till ten,
Then went to town like other men,
And in his office he would stand