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THE STRAND MAGAZINE.


A Vegetable Oddity.
This potato, which forms a face as it stands, and another if turned upside down, was grown by Mr. Chatt, of Frimley, in 1889, and was sent to us by Mr. William Spurge, of Twickenham, its present possessor.


Father: "What! You have tumbled into the pond with your new trousers on?"
Son: "Please, father, I hadn't time to take them off!"


The coal-hole, and how tommy didn't jump it.