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WANTED-MEN. Officer: Yes, f can recommend a wounded soldier for a job on your farm ! What would his duties bo ? Farmer Hymn-Booke: Oh, very light! He could stay in bed every morning till half-past three-have nearly five minutes spell when he d milked his thirty cows—and f never expect a man to cut more than a cord and a-half of firewood a day ; and we've only forty pigs to feed. Any spare time he had he could amuse himself digging drains, as he is soused to trenches. Being disabled I'd raise the wages to 15s. a week; and he a get a Nice Christian Home.

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