The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

Original iPattn).

DAMET BUCOLIO3. No. 2.

?HZ MITCH IN TUN (WINDS:I.—CRAMMED •ND JAN.
CRAMMER: Marsh), Jan I bow goose the world with
thee t
JAN: tlidl,n, thanlies ; wiry mush so thee can zee.
CIIARISMIN: Zee! I see an plain as aver I zed before,
I toe thy gairden al over weeds and inure.
JAN: Eo.e'N, there's a grist o' nettles, an • Iota( weeds
to spell.
Rehumatis bothers I ; and the taties don't do well.
Thic moil ain't wuth nothun—it stin't mullum.
W. d. like it best, no ye zee its vull on em.
CUAIINLVI 7 Voce • time, I heard my varther my,
It were • yurat•rate geirden in his day.
S now. I dressy you mind when who! Srubbins bad it,
My gurt graneather —his name was Itabbit.
Wall I he made. lot o' money, and nobody ever knew
llow al that money he ever got droo.
Every body zed be put it sin a eritoh,
And hurried somewhere in this guirden di.eh.
Ifs war'ut no egrod. he waist such • twaddle,
I allow its burned somewhere —right in the middle.
I'll goo
rinarrer I'll bring a (ark, soon as I zee the son.
I must goo an good day, 11l soon be here,
We'll turn up the oritch, and what turns unwell :home.

Jon: Zhare ! dell I if thou haat a single farden.
Blow the, befoie thou lust Ili cur •witi al the
goirden—
Let!. see—is thin cool well out of eight!
Well, I think a be—ril begin at unoe, to-night.
here, &11, vetch the hark, gi• I a spaide,
Vetch chotele, anything—that's a deer little
Come on, dig swat—turn op—tell thy mother to come,
It wun't be till t'inarrer afore we be done.
I don't veel jest now no rehouratis (minutia on;
Tiiic there critch we shall soon light upon,
temsrrer tycoon.

Ca tascas: Ihic eriteh,l wander if Jan as venni! an;
%Arlin it is he's dune saininat f,r Ibis there enirilea.
Jan, where best the.. does'ent thee hear !call?
I wear thou'iit round the eriteh, and got the guineas

_
and AL
JAN Goo on thee knave. there's s clot for thy bead;
No critah Is here—get thee mai to bed.
CHAILISLCS : liant'ee round the switch ?—never mind—

so or
Cabbages, or human ; plant urn well in a row;
L'od beams; or aparrowbrass, anything you like,
They ho as good as eritehes. Good night, Jan; good
night! WELD TAYLOR.

111/13. VA0.1% lan lcolf nip mu- • orT.
The Tires takes a gloomy view of our present nee«.
of defense, and says that such • state of things must
not continue. We have much to lose, and can well
rford to pay any insurance that may reasonably be
required for as reservation. We have before us in the
ere Prussia an excellent model, and we are inex.
cusable if we do hot make that model useful to nil. the
complete re-organisation of our forces. The peculiarity
of the Pnasian army is that it Is so army only in war,
while in peace it is • part of the nation, diselerging the
duties and enjoying the firdorn of civil life, and Mertes-
ing the resources of the country, instead of wasting and
destroying them in compulsory idleness. With &militia
of this kind, well armed and well led, Prussia has
encoseded in a decisive war against a power armed on
the old principle of standing armies, and it is quits clear
that such a force is at a disadvantage when used for
attack, and must be much more efficieot when confined
as it Ismail be with us, to the natural functions of
defence. We are apt to forget that our crowning victory
of Waterloo *as not due to the excellent army which
had become in the hands of the Duke of Willing.tcn in
the Peninsula so perfect an instrument that it could
go anywhere and do anything," but to raw troops
mostly drawn reeently from the militia, and a large
number of whom looked on the face of actual war for
the first time on that dreadful 18th of June. It seems,
then, that the first requisite for placing our army on the
same footing as thect of our neighbouni is sonic change
which shall make the regular army more like the militia,
and at the same time raise the militia more to a level
with the regular army. We must try to make the
soldier's life easier. A system of furlough regulated not
by tie wishes of the man, hut rather by the interests of
the public, giving the greatest possible expansion to our
army, and leaving the soldier as mush as possible to
himself, is on obvious expedient. We want more men,
and we must either them by making the service less
burdensome and the isolation from civil life much less
complete. By improving the position of the soldier, and
perhaps by increasing his pay, we might attract into the
army a clue of men superior to the only recruit' we are
at present able to obtain; and this would be still more
probable if the noncommissioned officers by whom so
much of the work which in other armies; falls on the
oilers themselves is well and efficiently done, were
more highly remunerated. The tansy, Nit is to be in.
creased to the point which our safety demands, must
become more national and leas excurivell proferionaL
These is another element of snorer in this attempt at
re-organisation which has been too much left out of eight
of late years, and that is the influence of local feeling
and sentiment as a recruiting power. If particular regi-
ments were assigned, so to speak, to particular counties,
if they were brought into constant contact with the
militia, volunteers, and Yeomanry, a martial feeling
would idallibly be engendered and augmented by the
variations of local feeling and by contact and example.
Whatever expense such &system might cause would be
met by reduetions which must certainly be made when.
over a really efficient band shall grasp the reins of our
military affairs. There is, for instance, the foetid
waste in ezperiments. What we should wish to see is
the vast SUMS we annually contributed spent less on ex
tablishmente, officers, and experiments, and more on
men, the reel meow and strength of an army.