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038 11 STRANLD A GAZINT.

Dare Scee here, on summer davs wien all four Jeave the work of canving childhood m two-penmvworths just on the home side ot the tunnel under the Outer Crele stands a0 refreshment bare With any excusce whatsoever, but usually with no excuse at all, Jung Perchad, Suffa Culh, - Jingo, and Solomon will - Tiger wistfullv about this bare Buns arc then ostensible object, hut T know they covet beer. Fayen a bun, however, will e taken o good parte and it takes o vast number of buns to offend an clephant, Buns, mdecd, are the envilized

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hears s much trade rivalny, Solomon s understood to be aoitating Tor a poles to place the establishiment upon an cqual Tooting with the opposition. Bank THohiday is a0 termible day ior these clephants. No o reasonable clephant can refuse abun, or an apple, or a lead-pencil, or i boy’s hat, when it is offered. Tt might hurt the denor’s feclings: further, some dav, 1 the winter, when nobody comes, he might want just such refreshment. But iLis o sad to think of the Taithful elepham towards the end ol the dav, weighed down to the very carth with the offerings o an

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last bun, with no inch of storage left. And sadder . § to know that, when the struggle is done, and that o B last hun deposited, with - dolor and aflliction, upon A ;

the varied accumulation which he envelops, that 7

clephant will proceed indoors to face the officially- provided supper--a barn full o “cow’s wittles 7 (Suffolkese) and a scrried company of pails full of mash. What he docs

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