The Casualty List
The Christmas holidays have brought their usual lists of casualties among pleasure and sporting parties. The sail-boat that is ' as safe as your own house ' and the gun that isn't loaded have proved themselves as deadly as ever. But 'twas ever thus. ' What misery,' said Sydney Smith of the holiday-makers of his day, •human beings inflict on themselves under the name of pleasure ! '
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1906, Page 1
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66The Casualty List New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1906, Page 1
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