Several correspondents who were charged twopence for a box complain
that they are unable to see the joke.
***
An Irish newspaper, _The Kilkenny People_, has been suppressed for
seditious utterances. People are wondering what it can possibly have
said.
***
There will be no flag-day on August 26th.
***
A girl clerk in a Surrey bank has explained a shortage of a half-penny
in her postage-stamps by admitting that she swallowed one. It is
thought that the extremely low price tempted her.
* * * * *
[Illustration: _New Hand_. "Flies seem pretty awful out here,
Corporal."
_Hardened Campaigner_. "Wot flies?"]
* * * * *
ON VIMY RIDGE.
_TO B.S.B., JULY 11TH_.
On Vimy Ridge I sit at rest
With Loos and Lens outspread below;
An A.D.C.--the very best--
Expounds the panoramic show;
Lightly I lunch, and never yet
Has quite so strong an orchestration
Supplied the music while I ate
My cold collation.
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