to combat Bolshevism, train Persian levies, prevent the Huns and Turks from threatening India by way of the Caspian Sea, and a few other little things of the same nature.  The men of this “party” were picked men, and it is enough to say that their courage was as high as their numbers were few.  It is indeed a mystery why any of them escaped with their lives, for, as experience proved, it was one thing to train Persian levies and another to get them to fight when they were wanted to.  And without the levies the “Hush-Hush” party was outnumbered again and again.  I could have wished that the excellent map which is firmly embedded in the binding had been detachable, for the interest of the chronicle compelled me constantly to refer to it, and I suffered great distraction.

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[Illustration:  “IS HE A SAILOR, MUM?”

“YES, DARLING.”

“THEN WHERE’S HIS PARROT?”]

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Sidelights of Song (LONG), by Mr. GILBERT COLLINS, contains a few sets of verse which have appeared in Punch.