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WOMAN'S WAYS: On a Sussex Down

... men are fighting for the Empire of the world over there on the Continent of Europe, while below my window children play, and dogs bark joyously, and an ancient shepherd, with k, age old eyes, leans on the five-barred gate and V.-,- munches his bread-and- ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1167 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

Bridge

... Duchess of Westminster's War Hospital, by Topical Agency Melbourne Cup Finish, by Sears Studio Mel bourne; Belgian War Dogs, British Sailors of the Naval C e?rw Q l '-DP,te A' Fulton. Belgian Army at and T adv W L Pedlgr? Dngs fo1' War Funds, Lord and Lady ...

THE STAGE FROM THE STALLS: ANIMAL HUMOUR IN THE ANTARCTIC: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF THE SCOTT EXPEDITION; With Scott ..

... low-comedians of the South Pole, are only about twenty inches high, but irresistibly comic, whether making love, or making war, or making nests, or making speeches in their quaint parliaments flightless birds that lay a couple of eggs in a nest of stones ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1094 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

Article

... trials, so that 1 do not think that line will be taken. The meeting itself is a reflection on them, and also on the winning dogs. Well, I have searched the press to see if any impartial trial critic has put his finger on a winner that (in his opinion) ...

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THE MADNESS OF PRIVATE BARNES

... don't understand. Is that all Yes, Sir, stammered the Sergeant, 'E was referrin' dis respectful to the Secretary of State for War. Please, Sir, cried the agonised voice of Boy Smith, I didn't mean nothin', Sir. I only passed the remark to Boy Briggs, Sir ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2990 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Letters of Eve

... at his age, wouldn't you And if it really does come to blows won't those Irishmen love it? I hear that all these wars and rumours of wars aren't making any diff. at all to the people going to Ireland for their holidays- they're an added attraction, if ...

Published: Wednesday 22 July 1914
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2098 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE TELEGRAPHIST

... risk his skin on active service, he had been employed at the local end of the wire as telegraphist to a big daily. When the war had come the daily had cut down staff, and he had gone among the first. Someone had then pointed out to him the need of, and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3340 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LAST BEAT

... very poor opinion of his father's latest hobby. He opened out upon the question at once when he met me at the station with the dog-cart. It's a most deplorable thing, Alan, he began, to observe the present behaviour of the Governor. You'll find things ...

When Guns Went Soldier Talking

... the notice outside the gate you'll see that trespassers will be prosecuted with all the rigour of the law, by order of the War Office. Now, get out, he added fiercely. The position was certainly awkward, so the Gunnery Lieutenant hastened to explain ...

Published: Wednesday 08 July 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4089 | Page: 63 | Tags: Illustrations