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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. QUIZZERY. EVERY December and January, as if there were not enough already to test our characters at the Festive Season, there is a virulent epidemic of a disease which has come to be known as Quizzing. Persons of morbid disposition spend the entire year in searching through encyclopaedias for pieces of abstruse information, which they airily produce at Christmas ...

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... . By X. MARCEL BOULESTIN. ON meatless days in France you can still eat poultry, rabbit and game, but if you want to have game you must know a discreet poacher, or a man on leave from the Front, for he is allowed to go à la chasse. Of course, there are the usual quibbles special to this part of the world if you kill a bird without a gun, are you legally a chasseur or not This point was raised ...

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... Qp£) TO CHEER YOU UP SECTION. OQO THE UBIQUITOUS WINSTON: A COWARDLY ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP LORD HAW-HAW. DRAWN WY W. HKATH ROBINSON. We continue our series of daring tear exploits by Mr. Winston Churchill the First Lord of the Admiralty as imagined by Mr. W. Heath Robinson. They are hardly more far-fetched than those which are attributed to him by Nazi propaganda This week his coicardly manwuvre ...

... FliaM puoxmd outXMm By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Faith took it into her head to be vaccinated last week. She has a theory that the Germans are going to drop germs on us in the Spring, and wants to Be Prepared. She says that the Germans are going to fly at a great height over England and release thousands of minute parachutes laden with bacilli. The parachutes will disintegrate in descent, ...