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"THOSE who think it is unlucky to walk under a ladder, or to sit down to dinner in a party of thirteen," remarks Jacques in the Hobart ' Mercury,' " will be very chary about the year. 1915. He came in on. a Friday ;'' he will go" out on a Friday, and he will serve us up fifty-three Fridays in all before we have done with him." However, there is something to be said on the other side. Mr H. O. Arnold-Forster, in his ' History of England,' draws attention to the fact that the 'fifteens' have all been important years in English history. In 1215 Magna Charta was signed and England became free; 1415 Henry the Fifth won the battle of' Agincourt; in 1715 the Jacobite rebellion was suppressed, and in 1815 we won the battle of Waterloo. On the whole, "therefore we nia.y consider that the omens are propitious. ' We. will whallop the Germans in 1915, let us hope.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 March 1915, Page 3
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