something more in keeping with the traditions of the Company."--_Ramsey
Courier_.

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"Serious complaint is being made at another recurrence of the failure
of the electric light in ----. It is no light matter."--_Local Paper_.

It wouldn't be.

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[Illustration: _Benevolent deck-hand_ (_to solitary small boy_). "'ULLO,
BEATTY! WHERE'S YER PA?"

_Small boy_. "UP AT THE SHARP END, LEANING OVER THE PALINGS."]

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OF CERTAIN BRUTUSES WHO MISSED THEIR MARK.

["COALITION DOOMED."--_Poster of "Evening News."_

"COALITION DEATH SENTENCE."--_"Times'" Headline on Mr. ASQUITH at Paisley._

"BLOW TO THE COALITION."--_"Times'" Headline on Mr. BARNES'S resignation_.]

Have you heard of the coming of Nemesis,
How she glides through the ambient gloom
That envelops the Downing-Street premises