We have heard of a gloomy Dean, whose habitat answers to the
description given. Can this be his understudy?

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"The 'brasses' worn by the modern cart-horse are a direct
survival of the amulets which bedecked the horses of the time
of Julius Cæsar. They are worn on the farthingale as charms
against the Evil Eye."--_Daily Paper_.

You should see our Clydesdale in her crinoline.

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[Illustration: AN UNPOPULAR REVIVAL.

FRITZ. "THIS IS NO GOOD TO ME NOW. YOU WANT A SWELLED HEAD FOR THIS
SORT OF THING."]

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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

_Monday, March 15th_. The great Food-prices debate hardly justified
its preliminary advertisement. Mr. MCCURDY took sure ground when he
argued that high prices were mainly due to world-shortage; and,
though he entered more disputable territory when he declared that the
Profiteering Act was not primarily intended to punish profiteers,
Mr. ASQUITH did not seriously attempt to dislodge him. Indeed, the
EX-PREMIER'S speech was mainly composed of truisms, his only excursion