“You see that old chap? The war’s cost ’im a pretty penny.” “ Ow’s that?” “Well, ’© used to ’ang round our works money-lending. Lend a bob to anv man ’oo ’ad a middle-of-the-week thirst, and get eighteenpence back from ’im on Saturday. And all tho chaps ’oo've gone to enlist took it out of old Tom bv borrowin’ a bob on their last day. ifa says that this war's a disgrace to civilisation.” “Wo must have an organ to support us,” said tho practical politician. “ Jest what I was saying to my monkey,” observed the itinerant musician. She (romantically) • “ I Wonder why tha waves sob and moan so when they break upon tho boachr” He: “For th© simple jnaaoa thtfc gw/*• took©, I suppcie."
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Evening Star, Issue 15914, 21 September 1915, Page 4
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