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now to show in their defeats, that they gandot remain. That is the key to these inexplicable stories of the British soklier and the inexplicable value that we sel Mr and Mrs Adami Dr F. Keyt
Mr G. E. Anderson Capt. T. I. Larsen, on them. Each one of them delights us, Miss. A.G: Anderson r and Man 0. beesuse it is so much evidence of that Mr. Marray Bain Mr and Mrs J..
Me Geo 8. Arabhatt Laurita Even after two years of war the British which is his great moral strength in his Me J. Baring. Leiria soldier remains very badling to all but shock of war, his obstinate determinationes Z. Baring Mr & Langbeld own countrymen. Those very tales that through its horrors, its fears, ite excite and Mrs. H.A. Mr D. GordonLarder we tell of hias with most pride, and in and on its glorios, to remain him. Baxter Mr J. H. van. G. MARSEILLES AND LONDON,articular those tales of Cockney humour, solf to be what he was in the structs of Mer E. R. Bellion
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