of his periodical
competitions for the best Latin version, of "to buck up," "to stick
it out," "a bit thick," "talking through one's hat," "I don't think,"
"blighter," "rotter," and "not 'arf."

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ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

"Mr. Zangwill (the Chief Rabbi) also spoke."--_Daily News_.

Following the appointment (recently announced by Mr. Punch) of Mr.
H.G. WELLS as Chaplain to the Forces.

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From a cattle-auction advertisement:--

"NOTE.--Pigs and Calves are requested to be forward by 11
o'clock."--_Kirkendbrightshire Advertiser_.

_Vive la politesse!_

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"The hereditary privilege of remaining covered in the presence
of the Monarch was granted by Henry VIII. to John Forester of
Watling Street, in 1570."--_Observer_.

We wonder what GOOD QUEEN BESS thought about this posthumous
interference on the part of her papa.

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From Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S latest novel:--

"It was, indeed, something of an achievement to get on terms of
confidence with those alien children ... many of whom had acquired
a precocious suspicion of Greeks bearing gifts. That sense of
_caveat donor_ was perhaps their most pathetic characteristic."

Timeo Danaos et dona accipientes! Which may be roughly rendered: "I
suspect TINO, even when he's in receipt of a subsidy."

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[Illustration: "WELL. IT'S TIME WE WERE OFF. BUT--PARDON ME, MRS.
GOLDBERG--DO YOU THINK YOU OUGHT TO WEAR SO MANY PEARLS AT AN ECONOMY
MEETING?"

"ALL RIGHT. I WON'T IF YOU THINK NOT. BUT AS A MATTER OF FACT THEY
_ARE_ AN ECONOMY. YOU SEE, MY HUSBAND IS PUTTIN' HIS MONEY IN PEARLS
TO SAVE INCOME-TAX."]

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LAVENDER.

I'm tickled by a pansy, wot's called an 'Appy Thought;
I'm gone on yaller "Glories" of the proper smelly sort;
And once I 'eld gerani-ums was grander than the rest,
But now I likes the lavender, the simple-lookin' lavender,
A little bit o' lavender the best.

My mate 'e'd been a gardener; 'is roses wasn't beat;
'Is marrers was a marvel and 'is strorberries a treat;
But w'en 'e leave 'is corliflow'rs an' lettuce to enlist,
'E said it was the lavender, 'is blinkin' bit o' lavender,
A silly patch o' lavender 'e missed.

In France I used t