"Great Scott! I must do something. Dashed if I don't get some more flags for the old jigger!"
A double Dutch Agency circulates a report of a great patriotic concert recently held in Berlin. The programme, which is printed on a mere scrap of paper, was as follows:—
A
GRAND PRUSSIAN PATRIOTIC CONCERT
In aid of the German Government War Fund
Will be held in the
Dismantled British Embassy.
———
Programme.
I.
Selection:
"Hail, Smiling Marne."
Band of the Imperial Prussian Guard.
II.
Song:
"Father, dear Father, come Home with me now."
Words and music by the German Crown Prince.
III.
Banjo Recital:
"The Sally of our Ally."
Words and music by the Emperor Francis Joseph.
IV.
Chorus:
"Forty Years On."
Setting arranged by Count Von Moltke the Second.
V.
Song:
"Oft in the Stilly Night."
Words and music by Count Zeppelin, composer of "What does little Birdie say?"
VI.
Recital:
"The Blue Carpathian Mountains."
The Viennese Orchestra.
VII.
Humorous Song:
"The Bonny Bonny Banks."
Arranged by the Imperial Minister of Finance.
VIII.
Song:
"And Nobody cares for Me!"
Respectfully dedicated to the German Emperor.
IX.
Grand Patriotic Chorus (in which the audience is requested to join):
"Prussia Expects That Every Man This Day Will Grab His Booty."
There's mist in the hollows,
There's gold on the tree,
And South go the swallows
Away over sea.
They home in our steeple
That climbs in the wind,
And, parson and people,
We welcome 'em kind.
The steeple was set here
In 1266;
If William could get here
He'd burn it to sticks.
He'd burn it for ever,
Bells, belfry and vane,
That swallows would never
Come home there again.
He'd hang down their perches
With cannor and gun,
For churches is churches,
And William's a Hun.
So—mist in the hollow
And leaf falling brown—
Ere home comes the swallow
May William be down!
And high stand the steeples
From Lincoln to Wells,
For parsons and peoples,
For birds and for bells!
"It makes things clearer, for example, if one knows that a howitzer gun drops its shells, while an ordinary field gun fires them to all intents and purposes vertically."
Weekly Dispatch.
Much clearer.
