Punch, or the London Charivari, page 29 by Various Authors
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er cards, there is already written--
"With every blessing good and true May the New Year be packed, And 1917 bring to you What 1916 lacked."
I wonder--how does their work seem to Them upon this morning after Boxing-day?
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What to do with our Boys.
"Bun-Prover wanted, 20-25 Trays Capacity."
Portsmouth Evening News.
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Not from the Cocoa Press.
"At a concert given in the sick bay, H.M.S. Crystal Palace, 34 large boxes of chocolates were distributed among the patients. Mr. Balfour sent a telegram wishing the men a speedy recovery."--The Times.
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The following advertisement appeared on Dec. 23:--
"Lady recommends her Companion-Hosekeeper."--Morning Paper.
She was not going to risk her own Christmas stocking.
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"It is no easy thing to replace an artist of the quality of Miss Lily Elsie, who, in spite of the warmth of her reception at His Majesty's Theatre, recently took so severe a chill that the doctor would not hear of her playing again for some time."--Daily Mail.
The figurative has no chance with the actual.
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AT THE SOURCE.
"Oh," said Francesca, coming into the library, "I see you're busy with your papers. Don't let me disturb you."
"If," I said, "it depended on me I wouldn't. I'd take you at your word and have you out of the room in two-twos. But you wouldn't like that, now, would you?"
"I'm afraid I should have to enter a protest. That's right, isn't it? Protests are things that have to be entered, aren't they?"
"Yes," I said, "they're like candidates for examinations, or rooms, only some rooms oughtn't to be entered, but are."
"Jocose?" said Francesca.
"No," I said; "I was thinking of Blue Beard. I daresay you remember about him. He was a very uxorious man, you know, and most domestic. Something of a traveller, and when"--
"We won'