The Archive · 1911

ELEPHANT FLOWERS

To the Editor of the "Nonra-Carxa Darr News."

Sin:—For the benefit of those who of any perteaa period. To be of real use, wore not at the Palace Hotel Meeting, "Jand who did not read one of in fact, all the subjects mast be arranged according to their speeches reported io your calamus on kinds, and only those who have done satarday, may I quote, in order to save work of this nature can adequately from undeserved oblivion, the following, mich seems even better than conceive the amount of labour this rearrangement, necessitated by its not classical " mixed metaphor " of nipping being found in any existing book, the rat in the bad, involved.

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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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