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8.0.8.

By Dicky Donovan.) (A long way after Kipling.)

There's a bloke as %vrites to Dot,

That's 8.0.8. Of beating he'll take a -lot, — ' ' - Won't yer, B.O.B.? If a bloke _ knows yer, I guess it's nic— i Oh!"I knows Mister E. E. G-., And yer signs yourself — 8.0.8. When you was a High School boy,

8.0.8., Yer letters we did enjoy, • 8.0.8. When j'ou took up yar pen, IL Avas a case of "look out, then," And yer rubbed it into boys and men — v Dj3n?t yei,,U.0.'8.2

Yer was .rather rough on .the girls,

8.0.8., ' You didn't believe in kiss and curls, Did yer, 8.0.8. ?

" But those girls met and debated, And I guessed and calculated They- weren't going to be slated - . By yer, 8.0.8. . So they "dealt out" pretty rough,

8.0.8., Thought they'd make you cry "enough!" 8.0.8. ■ They took you for a "jay," But they didn't know yer, did they? And in the end you had yer way — Didn't yer, B.O.B.? Yer belongs to Dot's Band, Don't yer, 8.0.8. ? And we're proud of it in Mitoriland, - Ain't .we, B.O.B.? Our earnest prayer shall always vbe : " May good luck always go with ye" ; God bless Dot and— B.O.B. 1 Wollington, July 11.

Prejudice.— rln addition to the copies of " Curfew Must Not Ring To-night " sen!; on to you, Carmen Sylva, Maseotte, Cis, and A Southland Lassie forwarded copies for you. As you are already fully supplied, I do not send them on to you. W. V., Waipawa.— To think that you should rake that up against me after 12 long months ! How careful I must be in future not to com- j mit myself to a rash promise. Fortunately j our little friends' memories appear to be in this respect as short as my own, and I must appeal to you to, as they say, not " give me away." • Amy Belle. — I am afraid not, dear. You see the Avhole paper is rendered useless if part of it is taken out. i

Dot's Badges sent to July 21: — May Coombe, Jean Duckwoilh, Francis H. Hay, Lizzie' Caithness, Lily Watten, Cissie Colgan, Master G-ecrge, Nellie Crutchley, Nellie Uurlev, L. Tait, Maggie Scott, Edith Bulfin, Nora SuUon, E. M. Laughton, Amy Smith, Jas. Wright, Edith Terry, Agnes Davey, Ben lveson, Jessie M'Laren, Nellie Willocks, May M'Coll, James Olliver, Maud Macpherson, Annie Bullen, .Ella Souter.