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[Illustration:  A CASE FOR RATIONING.

“YOUR LITTLE DOG DOESN’T SEEM TO MIND THE WEATHER.  I SUPPOSE HIS COAT KEEPS HIM WARM.”

“I DON’T THINK IT’S THAT ALTOGETHER.  YOU SEE, HE HAS RUM-AND-MILK WITH HIS CUTLET EVERY MORNING BEFORE HE GOES OUT.”]

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“Peterborough’s youngest investor was Herbert Trollope Gill, barely three months old, who subscribed the whole of his life’s savings.  He arrived at the bank with his mother, and there was poured out before the astonished gaze of the officials four hundred threepenny pieces.”—­Weekly Dispatch.

We congratulate HERBERT on his patriotism and regret that it should have compelled him to go into liquidation.