"An extract of squills, which has been used by the French Government in the trenches for two or three months, is to be used in a Berwickshire County Council experiment to exterminate rates."
Provincial Paper.
We should like to hear of something equally deadly to taxes.
"Miss Ruby Miller is in gorgeous green, to match her gorgeous red hair."—Sunday Pictorial.
It is perhaps just as well that some people, notably engine-drivers, do not see things in this way.
Chauffeur (ex-coachman, to master, who has been influenced by economy posters). "A run or two now and again, Sir, would be good for the car. You see, if I might so express it, she's just eating her bonnet off."