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Show DEPARTMENTAL STYLE. In one of the lesser Indian cities the clerk In charge of the official documents Is a Hindu with a peculiar knowledge ot English. Eng-lish. As rats did much damage to his papers, he obtained permission to keep two cats, the larger of them receiving rather better rations. ra-tions. A few weeks later the bead office at Calcutta received this dispatch: '"I have the honor to Inform you that the senior cat is absent without leave. What shall I do?" To Ibis problem there was vouchsafed no answer. After waiting a few days the Hindu sent off a proposal: "In re absentee cat. I propose to promote pro-mote the junior cat. and in the meantime to take Into Government service a probationer proba-tioner cat. on full rations." Tld Bits. |