["We repeat our question, therefore, and expect a 'Yes' or 'No' answer: Have all the dumps been sold, or have they not?"—Daily Mail.]

While wealth untold lies heaped in idleness

We will not see the nation go to pot;

We ask you (kindly answer "No" or "Yes"):

Have all the dumps been sold, or have they not?

By many a shell-torn desolate chateau

Stand monumental piles of martial store

Reared up long since to stem a savage foe

By labours of the Army Service Corps;

And day by day, in spite of our advice,