[Illustration: _Special Correspondent._ "WHEN THEY RELEASED ME THEY
SAID THAT IF I SHOWED MY FACE IN IRELAND AGAIN I SHOULD BE SHOT."

_Editor._ "I'LL LET THESE SINN FEINERS SEE THAT I'M NOT TO BE
INTIMIDATED. YOU'LL GO BACK BY THE NEXT TRAIN."]

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"POLES OVER THE LINE."

_Evening Paper._

So _that_ accounts for the weather.

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"Whatever other defects may be alleged against the scarlet
uniform, it certainly makes for two things--discipline and
smartness--and these two are very important factors in
discipline."

_"Civil and Military Gazette," Lahore._

Especially the former.

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"During the night, she [Mrs. Hamilton, the Channel swimmer] said,
'I occasionally took hot drinks and ate cold roast chicken, the