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From the town of Mafeking

What the end is matters little in this contest's broader game. Should they fall to Schreiner'a treachery their glory is the same. Their strength may prove too feeble to make the conquest dear, Their cheeks may waste with hunger, bnt will not blanch with fear. Their defiance to the death grasp may to some seem suicide, Bnt the world looks on in wonder and the British Race with pride. For 'tis plain whene'er the Briton for justice makes a stand, In the ice-fields of the Arctic, in the deßert'B burning sand, He iB ready for the Empire of the Queen to starve or bleed, Ab a lesson to tbe nations of what's meant by ' bull-dog breed ' ; And when jealous Powers are barking at the ever-growing might Of Great Britain, they will hesitate ere they begin to bite, And remember, when they feel inclined to ' step into the ring ' All the glory Of the story Of the town of Mafeking. — Melbourne Punch.

He was not a dull boy ; in fact, he was bright in everything but Scripture. In this he. had failed utterly, and the relations between him and the examiner had become somewhat Btrained. The latter asked him if there was any text in the whole Bible he could quote. He pondered, and then repeated : ' And Judas went out and hanged himself.' 'Is there any other verse you know in the Bible V the examiner asked. ' Yes. "Go thou and do likewise." ' There was a solemn panse, and the examiner went out to see the time.

They staged a very striking war tablean over in Perth for the first night of a rather sanguinary military up-to-date drama. And a fnll corpa of the local Tommies was specially engaged to shoot of? enough blaok cartridge to iet the andience smell gunpowder. Albo, to make the affair properly realistic, the Tommies had to blow holes with their gnns through the painted Boers on the back scene. Bnt wben they came to examine that painted cloth next morning the curious fact was discovered that not a Bingle Boer was hit. Every ' shot ' had taken effect in the back of a Gordon Highlander. The services of that particular corps of volunteers is not required for the front.

New Zealand scenery all admit Is unsurpassed in any land; One gazes till he's loth to quit Views so splendid and so grand. Bnt winter brings its squalls and storms, When everybody should inure His system with the stuff tbat warms, W. E Woods* Great Peppermint Cure

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