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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920"


The sense of mine is none the worse
If taken backward, verse by verse.
* * * * *
"Frederick ----, 14, was summoned for failing to display a white front
light on a bicycle and pleaded guilty.
Policewoman ---- stated the facts, and was fined 5s."--_Local Paper._
Most discouraging.
* * * * *
"Florists by the thousand for cutting. They are also nice for borders
round grass-plots, along hedges, round shrubs, etc."--_Dutch Bulb
Catalogue_.
We should not dare to treat a British florist like this.
* * * * *
[Illustration: _Bright Beginner_ (_as opponent is serving_). "DOES THE BALL
COME TO ME NOW?"]
* * * * *
CHARIVARIA.
"The English comedians are great," Mr. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS is reported to
have told an interviewer. He has already accepted an invitation, we
understand, to visit the Law Courts and hear Mr. Justice DARLING ask, "Who
is MARY PICKFORD?"
* * *
A turkey with four legs has been born in Purley. This attempt to divert
attention from the visit of Miss MARY PICKFORD seems to have failed
miserably.
* * *
"The increased wages in the catering trade," says an employer, "will be
borne by the public." How he came to think out this novel plan is what
mystifies the man in the street.
* * *
There is one reason, we read, why tea cannot be sold cheaper.


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