, 1872-09-07

O"N VII VIC WHdIl VI one was
not there, 1t was his duty to beg lowered
the Kings boat from its place entered it
undetected and unhndered. And chal~
enged by not even a "who goes there" de-
parted with their light bonny skif, their
oars, bed-covers and all, to-heaYen knows
where. ..n
Now, Mr.. Editor, are these men, think
you, "devils incarnate," or are they spirits
from the "vasty Deep that they can with
such perfect and remarkable facility escape
from a barricaded fort where soldiers are
Kept at the Public's expense, for the legiti-
mate purpose OF looking after Public good.
Or does not the idea suggest itself to you,
that there must be an inherent r~ottenness
or unsoundness in our boosted Military or
ganlzatlon? The latter seems the most
probable and though every effort is made
on the part OF those on whom devolves the
duty OF seeing the Military Regulations car
RED out, to conceal this fact, it discloses it.
self III all its actual baroness and natural
deformity.
Surely y, under existing circumstances, our
protection as a community is not of the
most brilliant or enviabIe kind. Nor can
personal safety IN our town be considered
settled certainty or an unquestionable re-
amy when those whose duty it is to guard
over that safety, either from l~aziness or inc
briefly "a lamentable but undeniable fact)
sleep on and on with a profoundness and
immobility as though they were never to
wake again on this side eternity.
Soldiers indeed There must be a mo-
dern and improved definition of this term.
A soldier, nowaday, in the general accep-
tatIon OF the word, (and we are apparently
blessed with this kind of delightful person
aIlties In West End is merely an "unfed-
ged two-legged thing" en~veIoped in blue
coat with brass buttons, a pair of white
pants and cap, and a sword, by way of
completion to the appearance, but which
Is never used, as when it may be called in
to requlSltIon (as in the episode of these
runaways for inStance) the owner of this
weapon of defence is either too sleepy or
intoxicated to use it.
Such, Mr., Editor, is our model West
End Military man. Our Soldier What
anoble body! What a divine lot! What
a gallant fraternity Honest Discretion
falls into convulsions at the picture!
am, dear Mr.. Editor,
Yours truly
AN OBSERVER.
West End, 4th September 1872.
We have reason to believe that the
above representation is not quite correct in
all its details-[ED.]
BROILING A FELLOW IN HIS OWN
FAT.
Sir,
The Tidende is of opinion that l have far
surpassed Truth and Justice, (the Motto of
that truthful and just paper, in using the
superscrIbed expression, ''taken from the
Kitchen" The Tidende would like to have
the exclusive privilege of selecting its ele-
giant expressions from kitchens, %crabholas.
stalls and stables of donkeys and cows etc.
1t had never dreamt of the possibility of anv
mans condescending to fight it with its own
base weapons, and "endearlng terms": but
"men DO their broken weapons rather use
than their bare hands," as the Tidende
professionally expresses it. To EMPLOY an
other of the Tidende's old saws. which
abound In Sancho Pansa wit: The Pot il
now upbraldlng the kettle on account Of the
depth of its complexion, a metaphor fetch.
cd from the same culinary regions. The
poor exposltor's temper suffers awfully from
an EXCESSIVE drooJ ava