_The Sultan._ Yes, I know, but I will not keep silence. Rather, I will ask
again, why have you sent my best regiments to help the Austrians and
Germans on their own fronts? Even I could have managed better than that.
And why are we fighting in this War at all? Answer me that.

_Enver._ We fight for the greatness of Turkey.

_The Sultan._ Well, we don't seem very successful. It was a good deal
bigger before we lost Erzerum and Baghdad...

(_Left wrangling._)

* * * * *

Conscience-Money?

"The Commissioners of Inland Revenue acknowledge the receipt of first
half of £100 note from 'Berlin.'"--_Daily Paper._

* * * * *

"Half-a-dozen deer escaped from Hatfield Park some weeks ago through a
gate having been carelessly left open. A wholesale clearance of
vegetables followed in the district, and the damage was so serious
that, with the Marquis of Salisbury's approval, shooting parties of
farmers went out, and the raiders have now been run to
earth."--_Manchester Paper._

It looks as if they were only rabbits, after all.