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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.
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| What is the cause of all this excitement? | The national game, of course. |
I. Pat was proud of them. They only cost him 8s. 6d.; but wasn't the "cut" worth a £1,000 a year to him?
II. Pat Junior—with a little tucking in—fell into them after fifteen months. Horoo! It was a grand saving in vests!
III. Buttoned over the shoulders the puzzle was to find Dennis. "Bedad! But ye can't bate 'em fer kaping 'is little shirt clane," says his mother.
IV. Little Mike wears them now, fastened up with fasionable rosettes on the shoulders. Pat says when Mike grows out of them he intends using them as bicycle breeches.
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| "My boy! Let me show you how to stand on that spring-board." | But he forgot all about his weight. |
