"Have you forgotten, Kathleen, that you are willing to shed your blood to win England's battles?
"Have you lost your wits that you believe all the ridiculous lies published against the Germans in the Jingo papers?
"Have you forgotten how the English treated the Boers?
"Have you forgotten Ninety-Eight?
"Have you forgotten the Manchester Martyrs?
"Have you forgotten the K.O.S.B. murders?
"Have you forgotten that the Future lies in your hands?
"Have you forgotten that England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity?
"God Save Ireland."
It is hardly necessary to say that so obviously crude and inartistic an appeal had no effect upon an essentially acute and artistic race; and its positive inartisticity bears the hall-mark of your Prussian's incapacity for entering into the more intimate feelings of men of other nations, a point which need hardly be laboured, having in view recent and current bovine misconceptions on the part of German diplomatic agents both in Europe and America.