HAIL SMILING MORNI
"I feel so fit this moming I could tackle a very fierce man-' cating tiger."
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Try tackling some of those esti- mates you should have finished yesterday.”
'Now. David, No bitterness. It is a very beautiful morning. Let us cast aside our mundane tasks and hearken to the pipes of Pan. If i were a poet, David. . .” "You're not. You're a very busy consulting engineer.”
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Corne, come, Mr. Scrooge. Is there no spark of sentiment in that flinty old heart ?"
Flinty old fiddlesticks. Look here, David, what is biting you today?
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"Well --- er -----
as a matter of fact I went to a party last night. The foaming beakers were knocked back with speed and precision. I had a whale of a time.”
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"H'm-you look fresh enough
anyway.
"
That is the climax of my story. Somebody gave me the tip about Gimlets. You know - Rose's Lime Juice being a therapeutic agent-anticipating hangovers- and so on. And it wozka !”
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Hm. Must make a note of that Rose's Lime Juice. Confound! I've written it on the plans for the
news reservoir !"
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Mir. Duff-Cooper continued: wear "tabs."
"We were outnumbered
it may Officers in the hospital at once well be that we are still outnum-| became suspicious: The police bered-but every engagement into were called in,
which we enter with the enemy The officers' suspicions were diminishes his superiority and in- heightened by his trying to get creases our hopes. outside to a 'phone, as he said, "This very day we have. torn "to friends who were anxious down from the skies some 50 Ger- about "him,"
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Remarkable Fact
"It is a
remarkable fact that the enemy, who have been-pre- ¡paring so long, should at this crisis of the war have demonstrat- Sergeant Marcel Amerlinck, ofjed their inferiority both in ma- I get out I shall do it. Hail, the Welsh Guards, who was the chines and, what is far more im- Mosley! Hell, Hitler!"
first B.E.F. bridegroom of the war, portant, in pilots. Mrs. Baker said in évidence has been killed in action. that she did not agree with the Last winter, while he was bil- present Government under the leted in a French farm, he fell in present Prime Minister.
love with а Polish refugee.
"Day and night our pilots go out seeking battle and it is their. almost invariable experience that when they sight the enemy he flies before them.
"Every battle brings the num-
She first heard the broadcast Mademoiselle Mariana Merta, of from the station a few weeks ago Cracow. They were married by: and thought' it was operating the Mayor of the little French bers of our fighters and bombers from somewhere in the British village and the bride went to live nearer to theirs and brings near- Isles.
in Cardiff,
er the day when we shall have The pass signed by Goebbels Sergeant Amerlinck's mother established that unquestionable wag an invitation to a garden now the wife of ex-Sergeant superiority in the air which we party, and the letter from the William Thomas, of Cardiff Police already exercise over all the seas Fuehrer's office the reply to a met her first husband when in the world."—Reuter. letter of sympathy from her when he was in a Welsh hospital in the the Deutschland was attacked. last war.
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Mrs. Baker. was committed for be sent from Britain to the over-the flood situation is improving expected over 2,000 children might The weather remains dry and trlul at Somerset.Assizės.
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Guglielmo Wittine, aged 31, former, officer, in the Italian in
Army, was sentenced to three London.-Reuter.