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"It may be the bravery of ignorance that induces us to take
this point of view, but the locality excuses ignorance to
some extent, and the bravery still exists: Ovid has a line
that might be learnt with advantage by our readers--
"'Falliker augurio, spes bona saepe sus.'"--_Nigerian Pioneer_.
We do not recall this line in OVID; but the locality is notoriously
unfavourable to Latin quotation. As HORACE says, _Hic Niger est; hunc
tu, Romane, caveto_.
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[Illustration: _Officer_. "WANT A NEW MESS-TIN, DO YOU? WHERE'S YOUR
OLD ONE?"
_Private_. "I HAVEN'T GOT IT, SIR." _Officer._ "WHY NOT?"
_Private_. "PLEASE, SIR, THERE'S A CHATEAU ON TOP OF IT, SIR."]
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DR. SULLIVAN.
It had been decided that there never was such a resemblance as is to
be traced between my homely features and those of a visitor to the
same hotel last year--Dr. Sullivan of Wigley Street.
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