THE POINT OF VIEW.

(_AS PRIVATE TOMMY ATKINS PUTS IT TO HIS COMRADE BILL._)

[In the Report of Lord WANTAGE's Committee, it appears that
our Home Army costs seventeen and a-half millions per annum.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE doubts if we could rapidly mobilise one
Army Corps. Sir EVELYN WOOD holds half the men under him at
Aldershot are not equal to doing a day's service, even in
England. The Duke of CONNAUGHT says half the battalions under
his command are no good for service, cannot even carry their
kits, and are not fit to march. Lord WOLSELEY, it is stated,
compares the British Army to a "squeezed lemon."]

"Squeezed lemon!" _That's_ encouraging!
Wish Wolseley knew 'ow much it's pleased us.
I'd like to arsk _one_ little thing:
I wonder who it is who's squeezed us?
The whole Report's a thing to cheer;
Makes us feel proud and pleased, oh! very!
And won't the bloomin' furrineer
Over our horacles make merry?

Costs seventeen millions and a arf,
And carn't go nowhere, nor do nothink!
That tots it up! They wouldn't charf,
Eh, BILL, these Big Wigs! What do _you_ think?
Therefore, we're just a useless lot.
After pipe-claying and stiff-starching,