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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917"


In the strength of the hills and the heather,
With the salt of the sea in their blood,
They sweep from the trenches together
With the force of an onrushing flood;
Like the billows that beat upon Moidart
When gales from the Hobrides blow,
Like a storm on the mountains of Knoidart
They burst on the foe.
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[Illustration: _Hairdresser_ (_with a view to business--to customer,
who is getting rapidly bald_). "There are plenty of hairdressers, you
know, Sir, who profess to make a wig; but, when you've got it on, it
looks nothing like a wig at all, Sir."]
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A film-drama:--
"It is the story of the poor orphan daughter of a South
American aristocrat. She has become enamoured of a tradesman's
son, but misapprehension having arisen, she becomes engaged
to a man who apparently is well endowed with this world's
foods."--_Leicester Daily Mercury._
In these times, who can wonder at her choice?
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From an article on the Royal Lineage:--
"After the extinction of the Billing Family.


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