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    HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR BANKER.

“The bankers of General Chang Tsolin, the Military Governor of Mukden, who suffered from financial troubles, were summarily executed by shooting on the charge of having disturbed the money market.”—­Shanghai Mercury.

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    “The DarDdaDneDlDleDs Commissioners sat again to-day at
    the House of Lords, when General Sir John Maxwell was
    examined.”—­i>Provincial Paper_.

Please do not imagine that that is what the gallant officer called them.

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    “A LARGE BLACK DOG, no colour, strayed.”—­The Times.

    “THE LUCKY BLACK CAT, in all colours, made to order.”—­The
    Queen.

This is the kind of thing that drives a chameleon mad.

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