THE BRITISH NAVY.

We are all very proud of the Navy. It is the largest in the world and all
the men in it are very brave, and kind too I expeck. ALFRED THE GREAT
invented it hundreds of years ago so it has had a long time to practis in.
When a sailer wants to say yes he says Ay, ay, sir, not offen mum because
the captain is always a man. Perhaps some day he wont be. I have got an
uncle who is a captain in the Navy. He says that in the olden days sailers
had such bad food that it walked about and if it was up the other end of
the table you ony had to whissel and it came down your end dubble quick.
But I don't know if that is true. Anyhow everything is all rite now but
this plesant thouhgt must not stop us sending parsels to the sailers, as
you cant fish up cakes and apples out of the sea and they like them very
much.

JOHN BRIGHT (age 9-1/2).

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SOLGIERS.

Solgiers wear karki. If you are an offiser the others salut you if you
arn't they don't. People musn't kill each other unless they have to becos
it's rwong. Solgiers have to. They have to pollish there buttens as well.
It is there cheef job unless they are offisers. Then they don't becos they
get paid more and let some one else do it for them. Before the war solgiers
were only one kind of man, now they are all kinds but mostly good. Granpa
is a genral so he knows. A frend of fathers is a private, he is quite nice
but he mayn't come to dinner when granpas here. I shall be a solgier when I
grow up praps a genral but Im not sure. I would like to be someone with a