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"A grocer in a London suburb complains that on Saturday he and his
staff were 'run o ffthei rlegs by the extraordinary demands of
customers.'"--_Westminster Gazette._

We congratulate the printer on his gallant effort to depict the
situation.

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"Wanted, Cook Generals, House Parlourmaids; fiends might
suit."--_Irish Paper._

Discussion of the eternal servant problem is apt to be one-sided; it
was quite time that we heard from the _advocatus diaboli_.

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TO STEPHEN LEACOCK

(_Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal,
and author of "Further Foolishness" and other notable works of
humour_).

The life that is flagrantly double,
Conflicting in conduct and aim,
Is seldom untainted by trouble
And commonly closes in shame;