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"The vexed question, 'What is a new-laid egg?' is at present
confronting a committee of poultry experts."--_Daily Telegraph._
The Committee should invite a hen to sit on it.
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An "under-cut":--
"Earl Beatty is setting an example in hustle at the Admiralty.
Photographed yesterday hurrying to lunch."--_Daily Paper._
His Lordship's example is superfluous. The Admiralty has nothing to learn
about hurrying to lunch.
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[Illustration: _Mistress._ "CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW IT IS, JANE, THAT WHENEVER
I COME INTO THE KITCHEN I ALWAYS FIND YOU READING?"
_Jane._ "I THINK IT MUST BE THEM RUBBER 'EELS YOU WEARS, MA'AM."]
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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
(_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._)
Mr. JOHN HASTINGS TURNER, who had already to his credit a play, a novel and
various successful revues, has now produced, in _A Place in the World_
(CASSELL), what is, I understand, to some extent a fictional version of his
play. How far this may be so I am uncertain (not having seen the play), but
I am by no means uncertain that it makes here a wholly admirable story, one
moreover that shows a notable advance in Mr. TURNER'S art as novelist,
being firmer in touch and generally more matured than anything he has yet
written.
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