"The acquaintanceship soon developed into a house where Miss
---- was living."--_Daily Paper_.
The chief obstacle to matrimony being thus removed, there could, of
course, be only one end to the story.
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"The Committee has decided to call the contest the 'Golden
Apple Challenge,' having in mind the legend of Paris giving
a golden apple to Helen of Troy as the fairest of the three
beautiful women who came to ask his judgment."--_Daily Mail_.
Personally we never attach much importance to these Paris legends.
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[Illustration: MORE ADVENTURES OF A POST-WAR SPORTSMAN.
_Master_. "HI! YOU! 'WARE BEANS. DON'T YOU KNOW BEANS WHEN YOU SEE
'EM?"
_P.-W.S._ "THEY'RE THE LITTLE THINGS THEY PUTS IN TINS WITH PORK,
AIN'T THEY?"]
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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
(_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks_.)
During the past few years the plays and stories, especially
the stories, of ANTON TCHEHOV have so triumphantly captured
English-speaking readers that there must be many who will welcome with
eagerness the volume of his _Letters_ (CHATTO AND WINDUS).
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