When full of beer it becomes absolutely impassable.

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Extract from a regimental notice:--

"I am glad to inform you that a Special Order ... guarantees
your admission to this Regiment on your release from the Postal
Service.... If attested and passed into Class A for Service, you
should apply to your Recruiting Officer, who will post you and
forward you here on an A.F. B. 216."

An appropriate and convenient arrangement.

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[Illustration: =ERIN TAKES A TURN AT HER OWN HARP.=

WITH MR. PUNCH'S SINCERE GOOD WISHES FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE IRISH
CONVENTION.]

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[Illustration: IN HAPPY DAYS TO COME.

_Non-Politician_ (_in remote country-house, to wife on her midnight