Officer (instructing recruits in signalling). "Didn't you get that message?"
Recruit. "Yes, Sir: 'Three Taubs and a Zeplin comin' over the 'ill.'"
Officer. "Then why the deuce didn't you send it on?"
Recruit. "Well, Sir, I couldn't 'ardly believe it."
"The Surveyor reported that the owners of the manure heaps by the Recreation Ground Tennis Courts had by now been covered over with seaweed, etc., thus complying with the Council's wishes."—Barmouth Advertiser.
We hope this will be a lesson to them.
The usual formula for beginning a letter is thus neatly rendered by a Hottentot Boy:—