"Businesses suitable for ex-soldiers: generals and others; taking £40 wkly, price £35. Call or stamp."—The Daily Chronicle.
We can almost hear our Generals stamping.
"It was an extremely difficult thing to effect a hit with anti-aircraft guns. A 'ricohetting' pheasant was nothing to it."—The Globe.
We take this remarkable bird to be a sort of bouncing "rocketer."
Extract from a testimonial sent to a patent-medicine vendor:—
"If you remember I came to you three days after I was bitten by my cat on the recommendation of a lady friend."—Straits Times.
We think it was cowardly of the lady to employ an agent.