Ah, no! old pipe, methinks this grey day came

To temper such as you and I to stand

The small and weary problems of life’s game,

And learn to cheer another one, whose hand

Has groped in vain, and vainly gropes

For better things than grey-like smoke and greyer hopes.

R. G. N., 11th Aust. A.S.C.

A WAIL FROM ORDNANCE

We’re only in the Ordience,