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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 24 July 1915, Page 24

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Maisie. —Oh, fie! E.J.R.S.—Thank you. E.N. P. —Regret inadmissible. PS. The music of the British National Anthem is of German origin. U p -*-Have communicated 1 with writer who will answer your query direct. H B -yy.—Good! hot recruiting verse is scarce. Stuff like this you send is worth a penny a yard either plain or coloured. O.W.S.—Your fresh and beauteous joke was the tag to an illustration by the late George dv Maurier in "Punch," June 14, 1877. L.B.R.—Botha is not German. The family is of Hugenot extraction. Nearly all the brilliant "Dutch' of South Africa are French. Staff Cap.—Apply to the local Defence Office, and watch the "have-n't-the-least-idea" expression, creep over the official complexion. C.M.N. A specimen of that kind of "minute analysis which proves after long argument tihat sawdust #is miassaoredl wood 1 and dust is dried up mud. O a few undigested! assertions 'about Russia, culled , from Foster Fraser (who rushed through biberia in a train), of no earthly use to anybody. Th M. A very good story when first told in Australia 20 years ago. Clever beggar to replace a bullock dray with a motor car, aren't you? O.D.—Thanks for the reminder about "the office dog,", but the beast has been buried, with other more or less, humorous antiquities, for many years, together with the ancient device of the caricature office boy and the daring printer s devil. "Magna est Veritas."—Please consider this office a blockaded! port in respect to your literary argosies. The man who tries to set down a simple fact illustrated by seven scraps of Latin culled from the back of the dictionary is a conceited ass.