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Show Bank Books Oddly Lost. Very few slips weie niado by the men In charge - to British post office of-fice saings l-ii'ik s)st"n, but many curious Incidents occur that cause them to bo wary. It often happens thnt bank books nro lost. Ono lost bank hook disappeared In a storm wave, which had swept away all tho effects of a coast guardsman. Another went down the gullet of a circus elephant; ele-phant; n third had been eaten by a goat, another by a pig, whllo a do-structlio do-structlio puppy had rent to pieces the record of another troubled depositor. All these losses hao o be lnostl-gated lnostl-gated and mndo good. An army sergeant ser-geant complained that he had lost his deposit book "while In the act of measuiliig ircrult for tho army" |