With those who shaped him to the thing he is—

When this dumb Terror shall reply to God,

After the silence of the centuries?

—Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, and used by kind permission of author and publisher.

TOMMY

By Rudyard Kipling

I went to a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer,

The publican ’e up an’ sez, “We serve no redcoats here.”

The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,

I out into the street again, an’ to myself sez I: