ODDS AND ENDS
•' You've got, a good collection of works of fiction, Smith.? ' 'Pretty fair. My. wife bought them to look for -a poetic name for the baby.' ' y 1 And what did you call her*? ' ' Susan ! '- - .-•",, . ■.{ ' 'Don't you think,' asked Mrs. Oldcastle, ' that - everybody is affected more or less by environment '! ' - • Yes,' replied Mrs. Packenharn, 'if they're foolish 'enough to '■ take suph things,--, bub I always turn down ruy glass .and never touch it.' . .- The thickness of the armor- on modern warships is truly astonishing. The side armor-plating of a firstclass battleship usually varies from 16£ in. thick at the „ top of the -Belt: to 9 J in:" at. the bottom. The gun turrets are "often A protected by" armor from 15in to 17in. thick.
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New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 38
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126ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 38
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