GEORGE WASHINGTON COOK.

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"Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy said it had been advocated in _The Times_.

The Premier: I will be prepared to believe anything of _The Times_, but
really I do not tink it has ever suggested tat."--_Daily Mail_.

Mr. LLOYD GEORGE is always ready to give _The Times_ tink-for-tat.

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[Illustration: _Guest_ (_to Fellow-Guest at garden-party who has offered to
introduce her to well-known Socialist_). "I DON'T THINK SO, THANKS. HE
LOOKS RATHER FEARSOME."

_Fellow-Guest._ "MY DEAR, HE'S ONE OF THE FEW DECENT PEOPLE HERE--BELONGS
TO AN OLD ENGLISH LABOURING FAMILY."]

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I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER.

(_Carefully imitated from the best models, except that it has somehow
got into metre and rhyme._)

Four-and-ninety English winters
Having flecked my hair with snows,
I am ready for the printers,