"NONE O' YOUR LARKS" (1861)
Gigantic Navvy. "Let's walk between yer, gents; folks 'll think you've took up a deserter."
PREPARING FOR WAR
A Memorandum containing a list of rules to be observed during the autumn manœuvres has just been issued. By some strange mistake, the following regulations (which evidently must have appeared in the original document) have been omitted. They are now published for the first time:—
1. Recruits of tender years will not be allowed to draw their bayonets. This rule does not apply to fine growing lads of twelve years old.