A CURIOUS TRIBE.From the Special Article (28 pages) by Sir JOHN GORST.Nonconformists.—... Always a belligerent people, nothing so excites the fighting instincts of this tribe as the Beast with the Seven Clause. The sight of him produces in them every symptom of activity. Preparations for the strife may be seen in all directions. Their chiefs, the principal of whom are KLIPHUD and PAJOPS, rally their hosts with such battle-cries as NOPOPRI, NODOLES....[The New Volume also contains Articles on RATE-PAYING, HUGHLIGANS, and BIRMINGHAM.]BLUNDELLING AND BLUNDERING.From the Special Article (41 pages) by Sir BLUNDELL MAPLE, Bart., M.P.:Remounts.—... The officers of the Remount Department seem to have overlooked the circumstance, not so much that the horse is an animal with a leg at each corner, but that these legs should be at least as strong as those fitted to aTottenham Court Road table. Just as there is a use for everything, even Shoolbred’s, so there is a use for a horse with three legs. I do not say the army can do without such an animal. But he has no proper place in a cavalry regiment; his place is among the beef stores. This confusion of duties, this exchange of interests between the Remount and the Commissariat Department, was one of the blots on the recent South African war. Shipload after shipload of horses arrived in Table Bay (I take pleasure in writing the name of a geographical feature so admirably chosen) all excellently adapted for the purpose of the cuisine, but all destined by official perversity for the capture of De Wet. It is such methods that we must avoid in the future, and it is for this purpose that I have imported a sterling line of cane-bottomed mustangs from the Austrian Bent Woods, which I am prepared to offer to the War Office at a low rate, subject to discount for cash, if Mr. Brodrick has any....[The New Volumes also contain Articles on BEEF EXTRACTS, CHEVRIL, and CROCKERY (by Lord Lonsdale), CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, and HUNGARY.]
From the Special Article (28 pages) by Sir JOHN GORST.
Nonconformists.—... Always a belligerent people, nothing so excites the fighting instincts of this tribe as the Beast with the Seven Clause. The sight of him produces in them every symptom of activity. Preparations for the strife may be seen in all directions. Their chiefs, the principal of whom are KLIPHUD and PAJOPS, rally their hosts with such battle-cries as NOPOPRI, NODOLES....
[The New Volume also contains Articles on RATE-PAYING, HUGHLIGANS, and BIRMINGHAM.]
BLUNDELLING AND BLUNDERING.
From the Special Article (41 pages) by Sir BLUNDELL MAPLE, Bart., M.P.:
Remounts.—... The officers of the Remount Department seem to have overlooked the circumstance, not so much that the horse is an animal with a leg at each corner, but that these legs should be at least as strong as those fitted to aTottenham Court Road table. Just as there is a use for everything, even Shoolbred’s, so there is a use for a horse with three legs. I do not say the army can do without such an animal. But he has no proper place in a cavalry regiment; his place is among the beef stores. This confusion of duties, this exchange of interests between the Remount and the Commissariat Department, was one of the blots on the recent South African war. Shipload after shipload of horses arrived in Table Bay (I take pleasure in writing the name of a geographical feature so admirably chosen) all excellently adapted for the purpose of the cuisine, but all destined by official perversity for the capture of De Wet. It is such methods that we must avoid in the future, and it is for this purpose that I have imported a sterling line of cane-bottomed mustangs from the Austrian Bent Woods, which I am prepared to offer to the War Office at a low rate, subject to discount for cash, if Mr. Brodrick has any....
[The New Volumes also contain Articles on BEEF EXTRACTS, CHEVRIL, and CROCKERY (by Lord Lonsdale), CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA, and HUNGARY.]