“The slacker frowned. ‘What?’ he said.
“‘Kitchener vants you,’ the German repeated.
“‘Well, by Jove,’ said the slacker, ‘he’s got you, all right!’”
NEW CAUSE FOR WAR
Robert Skinner, ex-consul-general to London, said at a dinner:
“Of course neutrals see things from one viewpoint and belligerents from another. We all have our various viewpoints.
“An English inebriate was recently released from jail. To a friend who met him outside the prison gates he said:
“‘Well, mate, wot noose?’
“‘There’s a law agin’ treatin’, was the reply, ‘and pretty near the whole world is at war.’
“‘Just think,’ he said. ‘Just think of a no-treatin’ law havin’ sech an effect as that.’”