SHAKSPEARE on the FOOD CONTROLLER:—
"No man's pie is free'd
From his ambitious finger."—Henry VIII., Act I. Scene I.
HEART-TO-HEART TALKS.
(The GERMAN CROWN PRINCE and Marshal HINDENBURG).
Hindenburg. So your Royal Highness proposes to leave us again?
The Prince.Yes, Marshal, I'm going to leave you for a short time. I have made arrangements which will render my absence from the Front as little disadvantageous as may be possible. My orders have been carefully drawn up so as to provide for every contingency, and I trust that nothing the enemy can do will find my stout fellows unprepared, while I am devising fresh triumphs for them in my temporary retirement.
Hindenburg. We shall all regret the absence of your Royal Highness from those fields in which you have planted new proofs both of German courage and of German intellectual superiority; but no doubt your Highness will be all the better for a short rest. May I, perhaps, ask the immediate cause of your Highness's departure from the Front?