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A lion-tamer advertises in a contemporary for a situation. It is reported
that Mr. SMILLIE contemplates engaging him for Sir ROBERT HORNE.

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Whatever else happens, somebody says, the public must hang together. But
what does he think we do in a Tube?

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"Primroses have been gathered at Welwyn," says _The Evening News_. As even
this seems to have failed we think it is time to drop these attempts to
draw the POET LAUREATE.

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Glasgow licensees are being accused of giving short whisky measure. It is
even said that in some extreme cases they paint the whisky on the glass
with a camel-hair brush.

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Mice, says Mrs. GREIVE, of Whins, hate the smell of mint. So do lambs.

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"Coal strike or no coal strike," says _The Daily Mail_, "the Commercial