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 the captive bird.
 One day an idea struck him. It seemed that the bird was in poor spir- it's. Lord Kitchener conceived the idea that the bird was lonely-that it re- quired a mate In a moment the whole of the headquarters was in a ferment. Staff officers who had not a moment to call their own were sent right and left through Pretoria hunting for a mate for the pet of the chief. who had steadfastly refused to allow any of his married officers to be joined by their mates while in Pretoria.
 The Yeomanry have done such spien- did service in South Africa that this one little story at their expense cannot be taken amiss. A party of colonials and Yeomanry was told off to capture a small laager. A friendly Boer vol unteered to show the way. and left them within sight of the fires of the Beer laager 10 make the attack as sooH as dawn appeared. Dawn came, only to find our men themselves surrounded by the Boers. There was one gap in the cordon. and for this gap the Yeo- manry made, their officer at their head, leaving their colonial comrades with the guns to tackle the Boers as best they could. Tn due course the Yeo- manry came to General Kitchener. Company your Yeomanry turned up. What shall l do with them?" The re- ply was almost immediate. Keep them as far from me as they kept from the Boers.'
 An anecdote illustrative of the differ ence between Kitchener as a chief and Lord Roberts is worth recalling. Be fore Lord Roberts left Cape Town he called into his office a certain colonel and charged him with particular mis- sion. How" said the chief. "soon can you put this through? I know you will do the best you can" Well" replied the colonel. "I'n try to do it in a fort night" Well" Lord Roberts repeat
 ed. "I know you will do the best you can," and with a pleasant smile he dismissed the officer
 Outside the door he met Lord Kitch- ener. Well" asked Kitchener. with
 busiHess-liEe abruptness. what are you -doing?" "Oh," said the cclone.. "Lord Roberts wants me to do so and
 so."
 "when are you going to get 1t through?"
 Well" said the colonel. q promised to try to do it in fortnight"
 "Now, colonel" was Kitchener's re-
 tort. If yoU cannot do 1t within week
 we shall have to see about sending you i home.' And done it was.
 Lieutenant Colonel Girouard. the Ca nadian engineer officer and director of
 military railways during the. war. is probably the only man who has ever answered back" to Kitchener. It was years ago, when the railway was being pushed into the desert. Girouard, inde- pendent colonial was experimenting
 q piece of construction when Kitchener appeared on the scene. The work did | not please him, and he spoke his mind freely, as is his custom. Girouard is reported to have listened silently until
 the torrent of words was spent. Then he stepped up to the chief and said: Look here, Mr. Kitchener, are you bossing this railway or am I?" What Kitchener said to this has not been reported, but it is a fact that Ge rOuard's check did not prevent Lord
 Kitchener from selecting him to be
 chief of the railways in South Africa And when one thinks of his railway work during the war he cannot help commenting HIS SelecIlOn.
 A good instance of .Kitchener's la comic style of speech was that made to his officer who, after struggling vainly
 to get an artillery train through the roads that were almost rivers of mud. i came to Kitchener.
 Tt is no use, general" he said, "we are so deep in mud that we cannot move our heavy guns another mile, and
 the Boers will get them fer certain Kitchener looked at this worn-out and discouraged officer for a moment. then quietly said: "Go on with your
 work, but don't forget that the mud is not only clogging our wheels, but the Beer wheels as we'll"
 kitchener's scathing sarcasm is well | illustrated by the reply he is said to
 have sent to the leader of a not over successful column. This officer had several slight engagements with the enemy, mainly consisting of fiingin@ a few shells at them at long range After
 each engagement he wired to the com
 mander-in- chief substantially: Dur ing action several Boers seen to drop from their saddles
 The thing was becoming tiresome, for Lord Kitchener's rule was that only those actually gathered" should be
 counted. He soon thought of a remedy and sent back to the officer this polite telegram: ~ hope when they fell they did not hurt themselves
 This reminds one of the answer Kitchener sent to a certain nobleman, whose son was serving in the yeomanry. ktchener's detestatiOn of the play time" sort of warfare indulged in by certain officers is we'll known. One cannot imagine Lord Kitchener as re- garding anything more important than
 war. Therefore. when the nobleman in question. with large idea of his own | importance, sent this wire: Please allow my son to return at once; urgent ! family reasons Kitchener answered
 1t laconically: "Son cannot return at
 all. urgent military raocopv