THE OPPORTUNISTS.
'Tis a strange portent of the war
That every advertiser
Desires to be indebted for
His income to the Kaiser;
At all events
He's got the goods for military gents.
"Pypp's Playing-cards," we learn, "dispel
The longest siege's tedium."
"Tin of Tobacco turns a shell—
Great feat by Mascot (medium)."
"No ally feels
Hungry or tired who carries Ponk's Pastilles."
"The nicest present you can get
To soothe the soldier's nerve is
Our Black Maria cigarette—
The best for active service!"
"All haversacks
Should carry lumps of Entente sealing-wax."
"Ask for our French equivalent
Of British Oaths. The French is
More chic. A pretty compliment
To Piou-Piou in the trenches!
A boon untold
To Indian colonels suffering from the cold!"
"Both persons have been taken prisoners and sent to Medan, where they will be fried for having broken Holland's neutrality."
Provinciale Groninger Courant.
A severe, but perhaps necessary, lesson.