THE THIN BROWN LINE.
["Decidedly the most gratifying feature in the accounts of these engagements which have reached us, is the proof which they contain of the remarkable progress in all soldierly qualities made by the fellaheen forces, under the guidance and instruction of their British Officers."—The Times.]
Tommy Atkins, loquitur:—
"We've fought with many men acrost the seas,
And some of 'em was brave, an' some was not."
(So Mister Kipling says. His 'ealth, boys, please!
'E doesn't give us Tommies Tommy-rot.)
We didn't think you over-full of pluck,
When you scuttled from our baynicks like wild 'orses;