So let our faces, by discipline marred,
Shine with an unction that savours of nard,
Now we may purchase unlimited lard.
Big Bertha Outranged.
"Two Russian battleships and some cruisers set out from Cronstadt to meet the British warships in the Baltic, and were fired on from the Flemish coast."—Yorkshire Paper.
"After four incessant years across Dora's knee the peace New Year ought surely to hold something good in its kindly lap for well-strafed automobilists."—Sketch.
But after four years across Dora's knee the New Year is probably not thinking about its lap, but quite the reverse.