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VOLUNTEERING MEMORIES.

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The Last Pärada..

The citizen soldiers were returning from Choir best church Janule a Volunteers with a hatid whose brassy harmony dispell ed the solem thoughts that come with the Sabbath'e calm, and, watching them s a street corner, I saw Erchie, standing a

MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA little more "steve" then usual, with an

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umbrella at the trail. He made me an

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Don't Worry!

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 1908,

Intimations.

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CONSULT:

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The Mystic and Modern Astrologer YES, WHY WORRY! awkward parody of the military salute, and ABOUT your Business, Health, Plessures, Friends Abroad, your Love Affairs and Chances in Life. Tes, Why Worry? Consult Pharna Ho is able to advise jerked a thumb in the direction of the past, Console you and Warn you. His smibition in this Efe is to help those in trouble, i IMPERIAL GERMAN & ROYAL

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"There's something awfn' cheery in a fine brass band," said he; and a brass band never sounds me nice us ou a Sabbath. day. I ken it's wang; it's only pomp and vanity, and the man with the big drum micht as weel bunt his tred in a biler-shop A, A BO 6th Edition, Western Ualus for a' the speeritual exaltation that he gets fre his bangin', but I'm a puir miserable simor, and I ke it fud."

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Etchic withered, shamefacedly, a little, rubbed his chiu, and said he had beon thinking to go East.

*After the band " I suggested quiz zingly, and he chuckled. "I was tryin to let on to mysal' it wasnu" be nånútked. but pon-pirly ora-pom, pom, pom. pom man! I ken that fane; come on and

we'll boar the leonish o't."

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STHANGE RESULTE OF DUFFY'S NIET. Erchio shuffled his feet to get into step with me, threw back his drooping shoul- ders, and dressed by the righs" sug- | gestirely.

"If the kicks used-brass-baris-instead bells," said he, "thère vadin be as mong folk sleep in on the Sunday mornin'e. Look at the croods! Puir misguided ceraturs they're sne uplifted they're for- gottin' they hae on their. Sunday cines. And this is the last of the Volunteers !--- it's an anxious time for the British hearth and hue."

They've only changed their name, i said; and we needn't sleep at night loss yogodly."

"Oh, I'm no' the least bit feared," said be" the 'only foreign invaders that pus me aboot is yon chaps sellin' onions, and the ice-cream mon that's sappin' the manhood -o-the-nation-wi' their bawbee-sliders." We're fed ne auch on their foreign trash we'll soon be a' Italian oorsels, Or French. It's a' maitter o' diet, and even Dufy, the coalman, since his wife begood to gie hin

supper o sardines is bloomin' into a kind parloy-voo. If he had a waxed moustache and anither man's wife, he wad La regular chef. Jinut asked him the price of his cools the her day, and he says, says he, if ye tak thom a-la-cairt, mad-dam, they're 20s a ton, but if ye tak"- them cul-de-sack it's a shillin' extra for the bags,

THE REGIMENTAL PET, "

Were you ever a Volunteer yoursili I asked.

"Nate" said he. "I have the mark of the bias on the backs n' my knees yet, if ye cried Shìnvía' sudden, 1-wad barst a' the buttons affmy waistcoat. I was the regimental pet in twa corps, and they ouly put me oot of them because they sai 7 coutina zeep the steps. That was a' nonsense; it was there that was always Frang in the step-thé hale jinghang o -them! The test corps I wna iri was the Sauchisha Streut-them that wore the tartan breaks and the shinko wi' the pom pom on the front o't. Yo mind? It was We Enfield rifle that we had-yo' skooted water 'through't to clean't, and put a wee brass kop no the nipple, that gaed off when y shat your eeh and put the trigger i ye had any luck at a'. I was five years the tartan breaks, and then I jiued the kilties--the auid Hunder-and-fifth. thocht at first o' jinin the Engineers, for though my Het were det, I had a fine keid for the helmet, but I was newly muried at the time, and Jinnet said she couldna bear the idea of me si:i* in steamboate. So my second corps was the Gloske Hislanders, They were the boys A bred on the heather or round aboot Gaynethill Han, ye should see us bram- pin' abent the Fleshers Blaugh on a sun- mer Setturday !

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When I merched not we the Kilties T falt anfu peuly-wally the maist o' the ther men had such tremendous legs! We -led-a-rum-major that took the brandtleʻ the Gallowgate-and its no' that there was drink him, but he wie sac vide. Wa Had a man Mackendrick, a leg like the. gaitherin' o' the clans; whau ho merched in front ye couldna hes the drams. And there nither chap w kept for tyin on by the ends o' tuglis-o-wne; if weight was sndgotia' he would win the butble o Waterloo wi' his least was bit touch. Yo never saw onything like it!"

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It was the Pride of Scotland 1" knid" Erchie with elation. Harry Lina, the conic conicdan, had sangs about us. The taly thing we wanted was the feather.

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