"AUSTRALIANS IN FRANCE.

"THIRD OF GERMAN ARMY EATEN."
_Queensland Paper_.

"THOROUGHLY Experienced Cook. Capable cooking large
family."--_Ceylon Paper_.

"WANTED, Smart Young Man or Woman, for frying."--_Provincial
Paper_.

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[Illustration: _Born Grumbler_. "FOR OVER FOUR YEARS I'VE BATTLED
FURIOUSLY AGAINST A 'ARD AN' BITTER FOE. AN' 'ERE I AM CONSTRUCTIN' A
WOODEN' 'ORSE FOR THE CAPTIN'S SON."]

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TO A YOUNG SUB.

_(By a late one.)_

Sublime young Sir, so nuttily complacent,
So airy-poised upon thy rubbered feet,
The cynosure, no doubt, of all adjacent
Regard along that hit of Regent Street,
My thanks. In rather less than half a twinkling
Thy lofty air and high Olympian gaze
Have taught me that of which I had no inkling