THE COMFORTER.
Lance-Corporal (in charge of footsore Tommy who has fallen out on the march). "You've nothing to grouse about. You're gettin' your own back from the Government. Ain't you wearin' out their blinkin' boots?"
CAUTIONARY TALES FOR THE ARMY.
III.
(Private Whidden, who ate his Iron Rations and came to an untimely end.)
Private Tom Whidden had a passion
For eating of his iron ration—