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"Capitalist who will consider financing Canadian oil fields or will
send English theologist to investigate property."--_Daily Paper._

And do the clerical work, we suppose.

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From a description of the V.C.'s at Buckingham Palace:--

"There were a sergeant-major arranged in nine separate groups, and an
attempt had been made to get old comrades together as far as possible."
--_Provincial Paper._

The reassembling of the sergeant-major must have taken a bit of doing.

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MY RAT.

He visits me at least once every day. His favourite time is the hour of
tea, when the family and staff may be expected to be at home; but sometimes
he honours us with an additional call at the luncheon hour. He emerges from
his deep hole beneath an ivy root, takes the air up and down the paths of
my rockery, glances in at the drawing-room window, passes on to the back
premises, and so home.

There is nothing furtive about his movements. His manner is that of one who