Vicar (his mind full of the recruiting posters). "Wilt thou take this woman to thy wedded wife—for three years or the duration of the war?"


PEACE WITH HONOUR.

(Being a slight amplification, from another quarter, of the lines addressed to "Mr. Bernard Jaw" in last week's "Punch.")

Oft as I've wondered with a weary sigh

At Mr. Shaw's incorrigible habit

Of always seeing England with an eye

That knows the armour's joint and where to stab it,

And, sometimes taken by his style,

Have half believed his taunts of guile,