"--_Yorkshire Post._
We have always felt that something like this needed saying.
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[Illustration: COMFORT IN EXILE.
IMPERIAL BROTHER-IN-LAW. "AFTER ALL, MY DEAR TINO, YOU ARE SOMETHING
BETTER THAN A KING; YOU ARE A FIELD-MARSHAL IN MY ARMY! YOU SHALL
PRESENTLY HAVE A COMMAND ON THE WESTERN FRONT."
TINO _(without enthusiasm)_. "THANK YOU VERY MUCH."]
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=ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.=
_Monday, June 11th_.--I am told that it was WILLIE REDMOND'S ambition
to be the Father of the House; indeed, that by some arithmetical
process peculiar to himself be claimed, although only elected in 1883,
to be already entitled to that venerable honour.
In reality he was the Eternal Boy, from the far-off time when it was
his nightly delight with youthful exuberance to cheek Mr. Speaker
BRAND until the moment of his glorious death in Flanders, whither he
had gone at an age when most of his compeers were content to play the
critic in a snug corner of the smoking-room.
Personal affection combined with admiration for his gallantry to
inspire the speeches in which the PRIME MINISTER, Mr.
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