THE HARDSHIPS OF WAR.
(To the Editor.) ; " Sir,—Our volunteers seem to bo haw' ing a bad time in the Domain—what:; with good food (?), rusty knives (perhapsthe commanding officer thinks that-tie:1 men should have a little oxide of iron1 ' "} to keep their blood in order), andothep: things all tending to put Tommy Atkins ; in an early grave. Our worthy defend* era are becoming remarkably thin, or v as Shakspere says, 'their hose too wi£a, for their shrunk shanks.' If the food they get in these peaceful times is growled at, the stomach turns at the thought of what will be supplied to it in was time, when every one is in a state ot excitement. 'Ugh!' I am glad. I am not a soldier of this Bun Tuck Government which has for its name an article which would make the volunteers' mouths water. V at the present time. Hoping the officers' mess is not so poorly provided for as the men's, who, by1 i the way, do all the hard work, and that there is &n ample supply of wine for^he ' former.—l am, etc., A SPY. '
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 278, 24 November 1898, Page 2
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185THE HARDSHIPS OF WAR. Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 278, 24 November 1898, Page 2
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