It may be worth while pointing oat kayo the "Academy "I that, while the him of £755, which is the total sum paid for Mr Rudyard Kipling'. poem. "The Absent-Minded Bagger," is very large, it is not the grestest given for a meoe of verse. For example, James Smith. ono I,f the auth

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MORE TRIED THAN One night, as Job Cook came off the downs, wet to the very akin. it happened that his wife had been bak hg. MO whorl be went to bed she took his leather breeches and pot them in the oven to dry. In the morning he began to feel about to Ins things, and he called ou

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