[Illustration: POLICE CONSTABLE (DEMOBILISED OFFICER) MEETS AN OLD FRIEND
FROM FRANCE.]

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"The Lord Mayor of Dublin has placed a room in the City Hall at the
disposal of the Labour party for the reception of reputations."--_Irish
Paper_.

A kindly thought. Reputations are so easily lost in Ireland.

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JAZZERWOCKY.

(_With apologies to LEWIS CARROLL._)

'Twas grillig, and the Jazzlewags
Did glomp and scrimble o'er the board;
All gladsome were their dazzlerags,
And the loud Nigs uproared.

"Beware the Tickle Trot, my son,
The feet that twink, the hands that clug;
Beware the Shimmy Shake and shun
The thrustful Bunny Hug."

He put his pumpsious shoon on foot,
He bent his knees to slithe and sprawl,