The Chalmers Invasion.
With Sir Robert Chalmers as the new Irish Under-Secretary and Sir Mackenzie Chalmers (no relation) as one of the members of the Commission of Enquiry into the Rebellion, Ireland no doubt will find another grievance, singing:
How happy could I be with either, Were t' other dear Chalmers away!
Expert in Military Matters. "He said he was an orficer; but I knew he wasn't, cos he hadn't a Buster Brown belt on."
THE WATCH DOGS.
XL.
My dear Charles,—The weather has changed and War has resumed a less uncomfortable aspect. The last I heard of our friend Persius Adolphus (now promoted to the giddy heights of Second-Lieutenant, but still referred to, in the privacy of the traverse, as "Perse") he was living al fresco in his little bit of trench, leading the sinful life with a pot of páté de foie gras in the one hand and the latest number of La Vie Parisienne in the other. It takes a lot of H.E. to distract a man's attention from these luxuries, which goes to show that, if at times it is a short life, it is in spring a merry one, and a twenty-franc note will in these parts provide a man with all the most extravagant pleasures of the idle rich for a month.