Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-26
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tered. Whilst walking through one Of the side streets heard the shrill blast of a whistle. Immediately some Tom mics" came rushing out of their bill ] lets to fall in.
 After the "roiq caiF' the sergeant ajor-a short, stout man with 1 bristly moustache-dismissed the pa- i rade and ordered the men to fall in" 1 again in alphabetical order for pay. ! Being an ex-service man, l remained an interested spectator. Recollections ! of similar parades flooded my mind. I was awakened from this reyerie by hearing the sergeant major shout to one man who was moving down to the bottom of the line, apparently to find
 his position:-
 You there Are you deaf? Didn't
 you hear me say alphabetically? Ain't your aame Phillips? We'll, get up
 among the F's and get move on I-being in civvies-smiled and con- tinped on my way.
 Saving Our Bacon-There is already
 on record the saving of valuable life by the release of spirits from bond. l One day this week a conscientious SOW i presented her owner with a litter of Is. By midnight there were Il survi- l vors, but the smallest seemed almost l at it's last gasp.
 Wrapped in flannel, it was taken in-
 to the kitchen. put in basket with a hot water bottle, and revived with milk and whiSkey, a stimulant which i had been lacking in tAe house for at I least two years. There the pig was left for the night.
 i In the morning a maid removed the I basket and the hot-water bottle, won \ deriRg what they were doing there. Later search discovered the missing roysterer under 9 settee, warm and snoring. Returned to the sty, it is now among the most truculent com
 batants at meal times.
 Il The Worst Eus.-Popular Borough Council. tired of 'Ersatz'' days, de- mands the return of the original 'buses in place of the lorry substitutes. It is l wise, and shows care not only for its ] sorely- shaken population, but also fe1 | it's roads. We all know that the or diuary motor bus makes coneavities 1 in wood paving, ploughs deep fur s rows in asphalte, and ruins maeadam but the havoc wrought by we'll I laden lorry is much greater. f Official estimates show that the an-
 nual cost of road repairs throughout
 the kingdom will rise from its pre- war limit Of fifteen to forty millions
 Dearer materials and higher wages. nt doubt, account for much of this in O crease. but there is an appreciable bal c ance to be debited to the numbering
 lorry.
 A Novel in Rhyme.-Mr. Jeffery Far e I mol, the author of The Broad High e way, The Amateur Gentleman, ant e otGer popular novels, has made an in
 l teresting experiment and written on
 Of the quaintest stories of Inoderl f. times. no less than romance in pros x and rhyme. It is called The Gest Of Duke Jocelyn.
 T MT. Farnol turns his back on pres
 ent-day life. and harks back to tn
 lage of Romance, and his story ,f In rhyme, blank verse, and prose i ;ti shall be told,
 As was the fashion oft in days of oI6 " "Soidisrs' Wound -Wort."LThe tw s lawns in front of the British Mugeut
 are now being dug up and re-turfet " because the grass has been spoiled b
 an invasion of yarrow.
 This shows shocking moral deca l. dence on the part of a plant with " noble history. For yarrow gets tn It botanical name "Acflillea" from a ira . dition that it is the herb with whic " Achilles healed the wounds of his sol diers. It was formerly a much les ," teenaed vuinerary, whence the ol D. names of soldiers wound wort" an ed Knights milfoil." and is still used b r. Hlghlanders to cure wound.
 The Spectre of Bennersyde-Nott
 l ing could be more appropriate tha to the proposal to purchase the Berwick is shire estate of Bemersyde as a nation ye al gift to Earl Haig, for the Hajs in have been connected with Bemersyd
 for 300 years at least Unfortunatel,
 most of the family records were de
 stroyed in fire which practical we gutted the ancient building in the six e. teenth century, but those which al Of still preserved at Edinburgh sho or that as early as 114o and then Bare
 de Haga changed his title to Baro
 Haig.
 The central tower. around which u IT. more modern building has sprung u D. is relic of the original castle, and by the grounds is 9 pool where, aecorS He ing to local legend spectre appeal
 when a death is about to occur in tI
 family.
 ut Queen EIena.---No country has be e. ter reason to be proud of it's quee ld than Italy, where there is still nj much constitutional unrest. It is o fact little known that Queen Ele1 was intended originally to be Il HE bride of the late Tsaa, but in 1895 Il
 heir to the Italian throne met her