TO ATTILA'S UNDERSTUDY.

[Reuter reports that a British prisoner has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment for calling Germans "Huns.">[

The choice was yours, we understood.

We thought that, when you wished to cater

For China's spiritual good,

This name received your imprimatur;

"Go forth," you said, "my sons!

Go and behave exactly like the Huns!"

Though under any other name,