_Customer._ "ONE OF THOSE THAT ARE HOLLOW, YOU KNOW."

_Waitress._ "OH--ONE OF _THEM_. THAT'LL BE FOURPENCE."]

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"Four Volumes 'The Great World War,' pre-war price Rs. 40. What offers?
Perfect."--_Indian Paper._

A clear case of propheteering.

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From an Irish Labour manifesto:--

"Impulsive cats, howsoever justifiable, may prove to be unwise."--
_Irish Paper._

Remember what happened at Kilkenny.

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THE PRIVILEGES OF MARGOTISM.

[Something was said in _Punch_ last week about the advantage to the
reminiscencer of being his (or her) own JOHNSON and BOSWELL too. Mrs.
ASQUITH'S recent adventures with the descendants of some of her late
friends, of whose fair fame they are not less jealous than she, suggest
certain of the pitfalls incident to this double _rôle_, particularly