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"Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 3, 1917"

"--_Manchester Evening News_.
Are these the first-fruits of the new Food Control?
* * * * *
From battalion orders:--
"Men transferred from Command Dep?t will be fed up to the day
of departure."
Even commanding officers occasionally have a glimpse of the obvious.
* * * * *
"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.
* * * * *
[Illustration: _Jan_ (_repeating the Question for the tenth time in
two hours_). "'AST SEEN OLD FURRIT THAT SOIDE, JARGE?"
_Jarge_ (_answering the question for the tenth time in two hours_).
"NOA. AIN'T YOU SEEN UN YOUR SOIDE?"
_Jan_. "NOA. DIDST PUT UN IN THY SOIDE?"
_Jarge_.


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