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"Am I eating too much?"
Wilson sounding war notes.
"They will not let me remove."
That money now backs the Greenback.
That coal-gas will yet come into its own.
Nothing, sometimes, if others can help it, That Britons' honour may equal Germans tickets.
Of no American vans in stock at several headquarter depots.
That we shall be back on the Cambrai-Le pateau line before July.
That the Austin announcement was not meant to be ostentatious.
That Julian Orde is to carry the R.A.C. by carrying on for the military.
That some drivers' legs are so long as to call for a well in the floor-boards.
That the R.A.C. interior will remain clublike and not be clubbed by builders' men.
That more and more users see the wisdom of putting sets of solids under their steamers.
That paraffin is next door to the commandeering stage—like the stoves were two months ago.
That they reckon themselves lucky if there's nothing but cold weather to bother them at the Front, Of an MT., A,S, C., officer, full of heavy-lorry !ore, somewhat abashed at his new column of Fords throughout.
That the Rowton Houses would have provided large numbers of individual offices, but all too small for the average official.
Of Fodens giving a chain pull to L.C.C, tramcars without a rail-grip after the snowfall on the slight incline in Caledonian Road.
That prominent on the much-boomed Tank films are the Bartle-built military chars-à-banes, taking troops to rest after the Battle of the Ancre.
That Mr. S. P. Edge has passed on the "CM." suggestions to the right quarter at the Board of Agriculture, as he has 'nothing to do with running after buying.
That it's curious that what has been admitted14; the roughest war service has fallen to the lot of the most highly-finished chassis, the Rolls-Royce, in the Caucasus and the Balkans.
That an agrimotor hauling a three-furrow plough will, at a, speed of 2/ miles an hour, usually plough one acre of land an hour, unless the distance between the headlands is much below the average. That thirty millions is now invested in Tungsten.
That Chambers of Commerce are toe often burial chambers.
That it's no use booming trade in motors with Russia when importation for trade purposes is not permitted.
Of a sorry man who swore in the early days of the war that he would not have his hair cut until England had won.
That as -well as agrirnotors we shall see electric factory and road " trucks " come out of British motor works after the peace.
That after the peace the principal makers will be found doing business " at the same old stand" but not so slowly as the same old speed.
That the char-a-bancs owner who does not prepare now to rely upon coal-gas for next season will deserve to have live coals heaped upon him.
Nursery Rhymes for Present Times.—No. 1.
Little Jack Horner Stood at the corner, Watching the traffic go by ; And when it had passed, He crossed over at last, And said: "What a good boy am I." It is best to cross wherethere is a centre refuge. A lamp is fixed at every refuge.
Parody on Rudyard Kipling's "IF."
If you can keep stock when.all about you Have used up theirs, and ask you to supply, If you can trust yourself when units flout you To send a soothing message in reply., If you can strike a balance so exactly That at the end when this great war is o'er Arranged in bins all neatly and compactly You have one month's supply—and nothing more, If you can issue fast and still yet faster, And get your vouchers back all duly signed, If you neler send a Triumph for an Aster Nor mix up stores of any sort or kind, If you can bear to see the things most wanted Cancelled by Base, without a reason why, Or watch indents returned with heart undauntsd, And redeemed without one word or sigh.
If you can show your orders are sufficient To meet demands however high they're stacked, And then take stock and find you are deficient, But never breathe a word about the fact ; If you take your cards and turn and twist them, To serve your turn whoever is in power, And thus adapt them to whatever system Is then in vogue that very day and hour, If you can talk with callers from each unit, 114Tacle, through their wires and keep your temper cool, Receive their indent, delicately prune it, Yet never give them cause to lose their wool, If you can send a deftly worded minute And crush complaints ere scarce they are begun, You know the stores and everything that'..s in it, And what is more you're wanted there—my son.