DECIDED DISADVANTAGE. The football enthusiast lied been shouting himself hoarse all the afternoon at the football match, and when it was over he wended his way to the Bod Lion, with a view to curing his soro throat. At 2 o’clock nest morning a police officer found him fast asleep on the pavement. “Now then, there! Wake up,” ho said, “yon can’t sleep here, you know,” flashing his lantern on the recumbent figure. The man started up, nibbed his eyes drowsily, and glared straight at the bull’s-eye. “Hang it!” he exclaimed. “Just our luck. Our side’s playing against the sun.” Beading of 'absorbing interest to holiday makers is contained in current numbers of ‘■Strand,’ ‘Pearson's,’ ‘Nash’s,’ ‘Royal,* ‘Wide World’ Magazines. Order your copies from your bookseller to-day.—[Advtj
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Evening Star, Issue 17850, 22 December 1921, Page 1
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127Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 Evening Star, Issue 17850, 22 December 1921, Page 1
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