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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2008.03.24 (07) [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Resources

> Actually, it now looks as though we are being haunted. A uniformed
> apparition seems to be looking out from behind the post in the
> masthead picture. I don't remember it being there before ...
> Woooo ...
> Is it the ghost of a border patrolman or of an officer of the
> language police?

Yes, I see it. Well, what do you expect at a border crossing? :) Is it
perhaps a postman taking letters out of what is actually a large grey
post box?

> Hotel Maid: "There's a body in the bath!"

> This is great! I hope you don't mind that I added it with a disclaimer
> saying that you've retrieved it from memory. Please let me know if you
> do mind.

A search turns up the text here:

http://www.fullbooks.com/Punch-or-the-London-Charivari-Vol-153.html

though unfortunately not the illustration. I remember it from a set of
reprints that came with Punch magazine in the days when it not only
existed, but was even funny.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

Thanks, Sandy.

I changed it accordingly.

Also, I got started on "False Friends" and "Words I Love."

Whoever that ghost is, I assume he isn't malevolent. So let's let him be!

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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