...us, under Air. Kipling's wandr humorous. How good is the familiar — ' We aren't no thin red 'eroep, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you.' and how irresistible the exclamation — ' But the commissariat Com-u-el when all is said and done,...

...gives us the soldier with a grievance and a very real grievance it is. We aren't no thin red heroes, we aren't no blackguards too But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, An' Tommy, "Pall be'ind," But it's " Please to walk in front,...

...are summed up in the typical Tommy Atkins, who tells us naively : " We aren't no thin red 'eroes, and we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks,...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints." He has not been quite so successful in dealing with civil and official life ; but the general atmosphere...

...merry swing of the lines delights the ear. Take the following stanza from " Tommy " for instance : "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable hke you ; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints. Why, single men in barricks don't...

...to describe the British soldier as he exists in India to-day, and, as "Tommy" says: "An" if sometime our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints." Kipling does not describe these men as worse than they really are, and fidelity to his subject demands...

...it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, etc. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints. While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy fall be'ind ; " But it's "Please to walk in front,...

...roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's ' Thin red line of 'eroes' when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' ' Tommy, fall be'ind,' But it's ' Please to walk in front,...

...head in one of his barrack room ballads, where he says — " We aint as thin red 'eroes, nor we aint no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you." The popular prejudice against the Army is still most lamentably strong, and I should like to give you...

...roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's 'Thin red line of 'eroes ' when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards...single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, fall be'ind,' But it's 'Please to walk in front,...

...England, and these ballads of his will not be counted among the least precious of our century's poetry. " We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards...single men in barricks, most remarkable like you." Ballads : Tommy. ^\ But the modern man, as he exists under these British skies, toiling in mines and...