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1. GREATNESS SOMEHOW CAUSES ALIENATION

8. IT'S AVAILABLE IN CON TINENTAL ESTAMINETS

9. WHAT THE PRESS BAR ONS HOPE TO MAKE

11. GOES BACK AND SURRENDERS AGAIN

12. THERE'S NOTHING IN THE TRICK TO CAUSE PROVOCATION

13. SUPPLY NECESSARY LINES ON TIME

15. CUSTOMS SHOWING WISDOM IN !MERICA

17. HAPPEN TO PUT A COUPLE OF HUNDRED IN BELONGING TO US

18. AFTER TEA BEGAN DRANK A MIXTURE CONTAINED IN THIS

20. MONSOON WHEN NOISY SEA RAN WILD

22. FELLOW ON RETURN TO SHOW SIGNS OF TIREDNESS

23. CHARGE WE HEAR WITH ROCK AN ORE NOT WITHOUT ATTRACTION DOWN

2. WHERE PEOPLE CONVALESCE IN GORGEOUS PALACES

3. "TOP RATE COMMUNIST" IS PUBLISHED

4. A SELECTION FROM ELGAR IS HARDLY OSTENTATIOUS

5. WILDLIFE EXPEDITIONS CREATING A FAIR DISTURBANCE IN THE SHIP

6. MORE THAN ONE PUSS STEALING IN THE LARDER

7. LOW SPIRITED DOCUMENT ABOUT NEWSPAPERS

10. A WHOLE DECK OFTEN DIVIDED UP AMONG FOUR HANDS

11. MAKING A FURTHER CONVINCING TEST AND ISSUING A REPRIMAND

14. HAVING A LIKING FOR THE INCOMPLETE EPITHET

16. DIDN'T DEPART FROM BEING PRIM AND PROPER WE HEAR

19. HORRIBLY DENSE HAS SOME DElCIENCY

21. TO BE A PROPRIETOR NOW IS OUT OF ORDER