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    “Wanted, strong Boy, about 14, for milk cart; to live
    in.”—­Provincial Paper.

He will at least have the advantage of living close to his work.

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“THE BHAKTHI MARGA PRASANGA SABHA.—­At Nagappa Chetty Pillayar Vasantha Mantapam, 322 Thumbu Chetty Street, Georgetown, to-morrow 4 P.M.  Bramhasri Mangudi Chidambara Bhagavathar will give a harikatha on ‘Pittukkumansuman tha Thiruvilayadal.’” —­Madras Paper.

We like the words and should be glad to hear the tune.

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NURSERY RHYMES OF LONDON TOWN.

(SECOND SERIES.)

XII.

CHERRY GARDENS.

  Where d’ye buy your earrings,
  Your pretty bobbing earrings,
  Where d’ye buy your earrings,
    Moll and Sue and Nan? 
  In the Cherry Gardens
  They sell ’em eight a penny,
  And let you eat as many
    As ever you can.

  Moll’s are ruddy coral,
  Sue’s are glossy jet,
  Nan’s are yellow ivory,
    Swinging on their stems. 
  O you lucky damsels
  To get in Cherry Gardens
  Earrings for your fardens
    Comelier than gems!

XIII.

NEWINGTON BUTTS.

  The bung is lost from Newington Butts! 
  The beer is running in all the ruts,
  The gutters are swimming, the Butts are dry,
  Lackadaisy! and so am I.
  Who was the thief that stole the bung? 
  I shall go hopping the day he’s hung!

XIV.

NINE ELMS.

  Nine Elms in a ring: 
  In One I saw a Robin swing,
  In Two a Peacock spread his tail,
  In Three I heard the Nightingale,
  In Four a White Owl hid with craft,
  In Five a Green Woodpecker laughed,
  In Six a Wood-dove croodled low,
  In Seven lived a quarrelling Crow,
  In Eight a million Starlings flew,
  In Nine a Cuckoo said, “Cuckoo!”

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    “On Sale, 2,300 Oak barrels; edible:  offers
    wanted.”—­Manchester Evening News.

Are these the first-fruits of the new Food Control?

* * * * *

From battalion orders:—­

    “Men transferred from Command Depôt will be fed up to the day
    of departure.”

Even commanding officers occasionally have a glimpse of the obvious.

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    “In expressing regret that we had dropped the word ‘culture’
    out of our vocabulary because of Germany, the Archdeacon of
    Middlesex gave the following definitions:—­

’Kultur’—­Had for ’Culture.’—­A word its god the State, and which describes a was practically spirit of sympathy materialism, the result with all that is beaubeing simply mechanitiful, true, honest, cal efficiency, and pure.”—­Liverpool Echo.

Even now it is not very clear.