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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 19, 1919, by Various, Edited by Owen Seamen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 19, 1919 Author: Various Release Date: April 4, 2004 [eBook #11908] Language: English Character set encoding: US-ASCII ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 156, MARCH 19, 1919*** E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, Sandra Brown, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 11908-h.htm or 11908-h.zip: (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/9/0/11908/11908-h/11908-h.htm) or (http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/1/1/9/0/11908/11908-h.zip) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. 156 MARCH 19, 1919 CHARIVARIA. President WILSON is stated to have played several keen games of "shuffle-board" on the _George Washington_. As it is an open secret that Lord ROBERT CECIL has been polishing up his "shove-halfpenny" in the billiard-room of the Hotel Majestic interesting developments are anticipated. *** Primroses, daisies and wallflowers are in full bloom in many parts of the country and young lambs may now be seen frisking in the meadows. Can the POET LAUREATE be waiting for someone to get sun-stroke? *** The Commission on the Responsibilities and Crimes of the War have not yet decided that the ex-Kaiser is guilty. At the same time it is said that they have an idea that he knew something about it. *** At a Belfast football match last week the winning team, the police and the referee were mobbed by the partisans of the losing side. Local sportsmen condemn the attack on the winning team as a dangerous innovation. *** The L.C.C. is training munition girls to be cooks. We understand that the velocity and range will be clearly stamped on the bottom of all pork-pies. *** A Stromness fisherman, on opening a halibut, found a large cormorant in its stomach. Cormorants, of course, are not fastidious birds. They
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