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We note with amusement a good old-fashioned typo of the

retort discourteous employed by Russian soldiers in the Dobrudja. The Bulgarians displayed a board in front of their trenches on which was written: " Mackensen is leading us." The Russians replied by similar means : " We don't care if it is the Devil himself." If this sort of thing goes on, our men will have to be supplied with a dictionary of trench retorts, drawn up by a Committee (one more would not matter) of British humorists. Our readers may remember how the author of Happy Thoughts began a dictionary of retorts, but never got further than the first entry : " Retort to an Abbe ' Vous etes un gros cochon d'Abbe.' "

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