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Tahir Ficaly writes: Nothing could fatter mark the differences tha: separate the Ceit from the Saxon than a brief lance into the manner in which each

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without them, the Irishman, never would be happy

The Irishman loves tragedy and all anattainable things. He solemnly fixes up white charches with tall steeples upon the hill-tops, precisely where his up factory chimneys. He wants bis sou [fellow- worker beyond the channel sets to become a pricat and perform minicles. make the family decent, and marry the girls to a "warnaan. He sees in

It was said long nga," by their fruits you shall know them," but might, I Way figure of Christ, and he is merely

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person looking for his share.” Polite SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAI It is hard to be always saying what thinks I wonder who it was that first further.

gave to

faith

to the world the Irishman as a Fysterer and a dancer of jigs? Perhaps Jever hver it was the legend grew, si in time people forgot that it wa only legend, and have thought of it ever since as a fact. "We weave our own enchantments,ways W. B. Yeats, and bind ourselves with our own imaginations." For the Irishman is terribly serious fellow all the times.

think!

You may travel Freland to-day, North and South and find no trace of the are all-long-facera. A nation of dreamers, "atage hilarity, and no laughter. We

people, I would any What becomes, you

A tragically religious then, of the tradition that the Irish are jocular come easy go easy set? It just goes to the garret with our other toys and noon-day disillusionments.

FIRST KHAKI."

It is a much more unpleasant thing to destroy no illusion than a Government. The world, treasures its illusions, but w treasures & Cabinet? However. I an Irish enough and patriotic enough to prefer butter to jam, which, I undur stand, is & Scotch cuncoction let louse fapon an innocent world by the dentists.

The Englishman at least the man ENGLISH REFERENCES TO "DIRT** thut, atording to the "Daily Mail,“ rules the street (I thought the policemen did) is the true rogaterer, the offer at Fate, the laugher at murie-hill. See Bo is the light man of the world's a him as he sails hig painted boat

on A

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A number of interesting letters have to Viscount.

first trial of khaki in India. Sir George Birdwood, the famous Indian scholar, writes to the "Daily Express

He is a great boy, with Hyde Milan's request for information of the

saturday afternoon in the p Park!"

his long pole under his arm. He will leave his work letines to run races with toy vachts in a toy lake. Over in Connacht if the like occurred the villagers would be calling in the dispensary doctor to certify another Imatic for the asylum They may

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The truth is that Irish life is gloomy in the uair, sometimes bordering on the tragic, but seldom bright and joyous The Irish are addicted to

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kimh, but not to guiets. The a Other World overshadows everything..

Of course, khaki is less distinguish- The Cockney, on the other hand, able at a distance than scarlet, but I

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hit then knows the secret of getting the most out scarlet, the latter LONDON DIRECTORY. of holiday. It is an event of spicnalid

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Now, that could never happen with the goods they ship, and the Coloniating himself there by any chance, tried szriet tunic was not the mot suitable way to Bundoran. If the Cockney, find den, he formed the opinion that a tight and Furnign Markets they supply; that on in Donegal, the railway people garment for a soldier to fight in in a hot

Entästasted A.D: 1880. would be wiring to the nearest police and dusty country. He therefore cloth- and use the young people look quare ed the Gindes in dust or mad-coloured WARE MERCHANTS, Wholecals STEEL and BARD" modern puts it, with all their gran

known as khaki.

nd Retail Ironmongers. Fig: Trog anl things n

whilst the elders discussed by the other regiments of the keepers and Balpchandlers No. 16 d. example of the Guides, was fol-Foundry Coke Imposters General Store polities and the backwardness of the Punjab Frontier Force, but it was not 37, HING Loore Sraetz, (2nd Street, west in the principal provincial tower and industrial centres of the United Kingdom. Holiday-time, the Cockney neefully. Army.

At Margate, one may find at Pank was taken into general use by the British

til the Afghan war of 1878-80 thut khaki of Central Market) Telephone No. 61. A copy of the currant adition will be leaping on the heel-crowds

Bangkung September 4, 1916. forwarded, freight paid, on receipt of when there are more hears than beris

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It is good for his heath, and he takes Deslera sooking Agencies can advertise things philosophically, and never grum their trade cards for £1, or larger adverbles. He wades in the water with his temente from £3,

wowenkind like a stork, he disports The Times of India has received the himself upon the sand, and takes his following from an anonymons Fabu joy-sleep in the sun.

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mertongus. The Irishman is no less than two years they were, clings to party like devotes to a god. stinging in the beds. Bagasind is now The Englishman auglas in the intervals freely vantilated by our righteous foru at the fun of it; the Iristian strats Duty of a righteous man is to drive out about elrin up, like the bern in a mel

the carons of

For buga. Damna are Fons. drama.

to a fair or market and mark Undoubtedly our soldiers did well in the Go the serious air and the and faces you battle of Bagadad: If I had been there will meet there, aughter and they I wouli have given slaps their backs. never sat in the same barony. I con aur in the Far East, therefore, it is trast them with the group of working beyond my ability to caress them.

men, women and boys up to London for

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