,
Rs. 26; one bundle babies, Rs. 5.--Apply Mrs. ----."--_Ceylon
Independent_.
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"Temporary Cook wants Hampshire."--_Morning Post_.
Really quite moderate. Some cooks nowadays seem to want the whole
earth.
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[Illustration: POST-WAR PROBLEMS.
_Adjutant_ (_who has been interrupted in his real work by a summons
from Colonel_). "YES, SIR?"
_Temporary Colonel_. "I SAY--ER--SMITH--IT'S SO UNCERTAIN HOW LONG
WE SHALL BE OUT HERE--DEMOBILISATION, YOU KNOW. ER--FACT IS--_DO_ YOU
THINK IT WORTH MY WHILE GETTING ANOTHER PAIR OF BREECHES?"]
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THE VISITOR.
When yesterday I went to see my friends--
(Watching their patient faces in a row,
I want to give each boy a D.S.O.)--
When yesterday I went to see my friends,
With cigarettes and foolish odds and ends
(Knowing they understand how well I know
That nothing I may do can make amends,
But that I must not grieve or tell them so),
A pale-faced Inniskilling, tall and slim,
Who'd fought two years and now was just eighteen,
Smiled up and showed, with eyes a little dim,
How someone left him, where his leg had been,
On the humped bandage that replaced the limb,
A tiny green glass pig to comfort him.
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