to be "released." Colonel YATE was perturbed by this Gorgonzolaesque
phrase, and anxiously inquired to what species of cheese it referred.

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[Illustration: THE COMFORTER.

_Lance-Corporal_ (_in charge of footsore Tommy who has fallen out on
the march_). "YOU'VE NOTHING TO GROUSE ABOUT. YOU'RE GETTIN' YOUR
OWN BACK FROM THE GOVERNMENT. AIN'T YOU WEARIN' OUT THEIR BLINKIN'
BOOTS?"]

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CAUTIONARY TALES FOR THE ARMY.

III.

(_Private Whidden, who ate his Iron Rations and came to an untimely
end_.)

Private Tom Whidden had a passion
For eating of his iron ration--
A thing, you know, which isn't _done_
(Except, just now and then, for fun),
Because there is a rule about it
And decent people rarely flout it.
But Tom was greedy and each day
He'd put a tin or two away,
Though duty told him, clear and plain,