We have noticed a few who have had quite a narrow escape.


WAY OUT.

(Thoughts on leaving the Crystal Palace.)

A brigadier or two beside the portal

To cry to me with anguish half disguised,

"Hail and farewell, O brother! pomp is mortal"—

Something, I fancied, something of this sort'll

Happen to me when I'm demobilised.

That was an error. Not a drum was sounded;