"--_The Practitioner_.
What the victim of this novel treatment says after recovering his
breath is happily withheld from us.
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From the Daily Orders of an Australian Battalion:--
"MOVES OF OFFICERS.
The following Officers have reported their arrival and
departed respectfully."
Discipline in the Imperial contingents is evidently improving.
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[Illustration: THE BANKRUPT BRAVOS.
SCENE: _Vienna, between the Sittings of the Conference._
SULTAN. "IT'S TIME WE GOT SOME MORE MONEY OUT OF WILLIAM. HE SEEMS TO
THINK HE'S DOING ALL THE FRIGHTFULNESS. HE FORGETS THAT I'M KNOWN AS
THE 'TERRIBLE TURK.'"
FERDINAND. "YES: AND THEY CALL ME 'FERDIE THE FEARFUL.'"
[The latter title has recently been conferred upon the TSAR of
Bulgaria by his subjects in recognition of his continued absence from
Sofia since the bombing of his palace.]]
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[Illustration: _G.O.C._ "WELL, MY MAN, WHAT ARE YOU IN CIVILIAN LIFE?"
_Dejected Private_. "PROFESSOR OF GREEK HISTORY AT ONE OF THE
UNIVERSITIES, SIR."]
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THE MINIATURE.
When I left her, Celia had two photographs, a British warm and an
accidental coffee-stain, by which to remember me. The coffee-stain was
the purest accident. By her manner of receiving it, Celia gave me the
impression that she thought I had done it on purpose, but it was not
so.
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