Pray how have you managed it all!”

“In war,” he replied, “all manœuvres are fair,

So by others the hard work was done;

Their failures I blamed, took their praise as my share,

And so that’s how my honours were won.”

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Old Log.


“You are old, Lady William,” the débutante cried,

“And by this time your hair should be grey;