"The Mahogany Tree."
A correspondent writes to Mr. Punch: "In this season's Printer's Pie your old friend and mine, Sir Henry Lucy, speaks of '"the old mahogany tree" in Bouverie Street, under which Thackeray for a while sat.' This tantalising sidelight makes many of us pine for fuller information. Did the incident occur on some particular occasion, or did the great novelist make a practice of this engaging form of self-effacement?"
"At a camp in Essex New Zealand troops joined with the local school children in the celebrations. The men paraded and the New Zealand flag was saluted. Afterwards there was a march past; the National Anthem, Kipling's 'Recessional,' and 'Lest we Forget' were sung."—The Times.
Mr. Kipling seems to have got an encore.
