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gesture, they gave us copies of an obscure
publication which specialized in attacks on
the makers of aluminum, and the danger
to health of cooking in “poison pots” made
of the metal. But when we hinted our
willingness to make them an offer for their
discarded aluminum pressure cooker, they
avoided discussion. We never passed that
way again, for our homeward course several
days later led through another channel.

FRENCH LEAVE
LESS than two days after making his escape
from a prison in the United States, Joseph
Fontaine drove up to the prison in a taxicab
and introduced himself to the guard at the
gate.

“Tve been on a 36-hour leave,” he in-
formed the astonished officer, who ushered
him in to complete the remainder of a three-
year sentence for stealing a car.

AN old east-ender was asked if he was
afraid of the raids. “No, guvnor,” was the
reply. “Can't say I am. Yer see, I counts
me chances. Jerry has got to take off all
night, ain't he? Then he’s got to get across
the channel, that ain't too easy for him.
Then he’s got to get by the coast. Then
comes the Thames Estuary, that ain't all
he likes. Then comes London—well, he
can’t miss that, but he’s got to find White-
chapel, then he has to pick oft our street,
and spot No. 88, that’s where I live, and if
he does that I shall most likely be round at

the pub!" —The Special.

J. W. SHERBININ
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DRAKE’S DRUM
ALONG THE shores of England Drake’s

drum is beating, and according to the legend,
that is as it should be.

When Sir Francis Drake died and was
buried at sea off the West Indies in 1596,
the drum that he had carried around the
world, and used 11 years later to lead his
men against the Spanish Armada, sounded
the last’ salute. Now it hangs in Buckland
Abbey, near Plymouth, and the legend has
it that the drum will summon Drake when
England is in danger.

Twice since Drake’s death has England
been threatened with invasion, and on each
occasion the drum has been heard beating
throughout the land. When Admiral Blake
encountered the Dutch fleet in the Thames
in 1653 and drove it off to sea, the spirit of
Drake was with him. When Lord Nelson
fought the Battle of Trafalgar, Drake’s
spirit helped to win. The drum gave a growl
when Napoleon landed at Plymouth after
the Battle of Waterloo; and was heard beat-
ing on the flagship Royal Oak, on November
21st, 1918, when it put out to accept the
surrender of the German fleet. Englishmen
in coastal towns say they heard the rolling
of the drum after Dunkirk.

Today the British remember the legend,
they hear Drake’s drum beating, and they
believe, with the late British poet Sir Henry
Newbolt, these words from Drake:

Take my drum to England,
Hang it by the shore,
Strike it when your powder’s running
low;
If the Dons strike Devon,
Tl quit the Port of Heaven
And drum them up the Channel
As we drummed them long ago.

—Reginald Sweetland in
Chicago Daily News.

STRANGER (to Pat, working in a field) :
“Hello, Pat, how many miles is it to
Dublin?”

Pat: “How did you know my name?”
Stranger: “Och, I guessed it.”
Pat: “Well, guess how many miles it is

to Dublin.”

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A STORY is told in Norway about 4]
new stamps with Quisling’s picture, whi
have been issued. The German manuf,
turer of the stamps soon received complain
that they did not stick. Replying to th
he stated, “Don’t spit on the front sid
spit on the reverse.” |

A SEATTLE lawyer broke a lengthy cro
examination of a witness to exclaim: “Yo,
Honour, one of the jurors is asleep.”
“You put him to sleep,” replied the judg
“Suppose you wake him up.”
—D.K.A. in Reader's Dige;

THE lorry driver, pulled up somewhere ;
Yorkshire by the policeman waving his ligh
was told to get down.

“What's t’matter?” he asked as the cop
table led him towards the tail board.

“That's t’matter,” said the man in bly
“Wheer’s thi red lamp?”

“Nay, nivver mind tlamp,” shouted #
driver. “Wheer’s t’ruddy trailer?” |

TWO young German soldiers, who kh:
been students together in the Fatherlan
met in the trenches on the Russian fron
Said one to the other: “What are you doit
in the Army, Franz? I thought you kh
been classified ‘C.3.°”

Said the second: “Well, I was called;
for the second time for my medical exar
ination and on arrival at the Army H.Q.
found that the doctor was merely touchit
each man on the chest, and if he was wan
he classified them ‘A.1.”

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