Never clanked sword by his side- Vauban he knew not, nor drill

Nor was his name on the list of the men who had passed through the "College."

Wherefore the Little Tin Gods harried their little tin

souls,

Seeing he came not from Chatham, jingled no spurs at his heels,

Knowing that, nevertheless, was he first on the Government rolls

For the billet of "" 'Railway Instructor to Little Tin Gods on Wheels."

Letters not seldom they wrote him,

honor to state,"

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having the

It would be better for all men if he were laid on the

shelf:

Much would accrue to his bank book, and he consented to wait

Until the Little Tin Gods built him a berth for himself.

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Special, well paid, and exempt from the Law of the

Fifty and Five,

Even to Ninety and Nine"- these were the terms of

the pact:

Thus did the Little Tin Gods (long may Their High. nesses thrive !)

Silence his mouth with rupees, keeping their Circle

intact;

Vauban: The great French authority on fortification and siege.

Public Waste

Appointing a Colonel from Chatham who managed

the Bhamo State Line,

(The which was one mile and one furlong

teed twenty-inch gauge).

a guaran

So Exeter Battleby Tring consented his claims to resign,

And died, on four thousand a month, in the ninetieth year of his age.

Four thousand rupees a month: About $1,000.

DELILAH

We have another Viceroy now, those days are dead and done, Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne.

Delilah Aberyswith was a lady-not too young

With a perfect taste in dresses, and a badly bitted

tongue,

With a thirst for information, and a greater thirst for praise,

And a little house in Simla, in the prehistoric days.

By reason of her marriage to a gentleman in power,
Delilah was acquainted with the gossip of the hour;
And many little secrets, of a half-official kind,
Were whispered to Delilah, and she bore them all in
mind.

She patronized extensively a man, Ulysses Gunne, Whose mode of earning money was a low and shameful one.

He wrote for divers papers, which, as everybody knows,

Is worse than serving in a shop or scaring off the

crows.

He praised her "queenly beauty" first; and, later on, he hinted

At the "vastness of her intellect" with compliments unstinted.

Delilah

He went with her a-riding, and his love for her was

One day, THEY brewed a secret of a fine financial

sort;

It related to Appointments, to a Man, and a Report. 'Twas almost worth the keeping (only seven people knew it),

And Gunne rose up to seek the truth and patiently ensue it.

It was a Viceroy's Secret, but-perhaps the wine was red

Perhaps an aged Councilor had lost his aged head Perhaps Delilah's eyes were bright- Delilah's whispers sweet

The Aged Member told her what 't were treason to

repeat.

Ulysses went a-riding, and they talked of love and flowers;

Ulysses went a-calling, and he called for several hours; Ulysses went a-waltzing, and Delilah helped him. dance

Ulysses let the waltzes go, and waited for his chance.

The summer sun was setting, and the summer air was still,

The couple went a-walking in the shade of Summer

Hill,

The wasteful sunset faded out in turkis-green and

gold,

Ulysses pleaded softly and that bad Delilah told!

Next morn a startled Empire learnt the all-important

news;

Next week the Aged Councilor was shaking in his

shoes;

Next month I met Delilah, and she did not show the

least

Hesitation in affirming that Ulysses was a "beast."

We have another Viceroy now, those days are dead and done,

Of Delilah Aberyswith and most mean Ulysses Gunne!