Northward fast he sailed once more
Till he heard the _Lion_ roar,
And before he could retreat he
Found himself engaged with BEATTY,
Who, as you already know,
Led him on to JELLICOE.
There I leave him, for, you see,
All the rest is history.
_All_ the rest? Well, not quite all;
For perhaps you may recall
How, when night was falling fast,
A reverberating blast
Far away was dimly heard
Which, the sailormen averred,
Was the Germans who had strayed
In amongst the mines we laid.
They were wrong. The fighting over,
Johnny's ship returned to Dover,
And the sound they heard afar
Was the jocund voice of Carr
Singing fit to burst his torso,
Like the song-thrush (only more so).
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"ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS FUND.--At the Savoy Hotel, on June 11, at
8 p.m. Service dress--khaki with trousers--or evening dress, with
miniatures."--_Times._
The price of clothes was bound to lead to something of this sort.
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From an article on "The Representative Man":--
"Gladstone and John Bright alike came out of Lancashire. How natural
to fmgeine etther of those startling ogposites proclaiming with
entire conviction, that when he samped himself he foundthimself to
be a 'Typical Englishman.
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