in the rigging, and the Territorials who had come to replace them cheering from the shore, the tra

that the officers with a few well-chosen words improved the shining hour, and pointed the moral of the great Entente with special refere

es were of a nature exclusively frivolous; and the conversation of such officers as were not consuming the midday cocktail consisted enti

ok their heads and communed together in secret places: a paltry few, who looked serious, and spoke of a long war and a bloody war such as had never been thought of. Avaunt pessimism! war was war, and a damned good show at the best of times

men going merrily forth, with the ideal of sport as their guide, to fight a nation of swine, with the ideal of f