"The British Ambassador, Sir Douglas Haig, Sir John Jellicoe, and
Sir William Robertson have become patrons of the club, which will
provide them with comfortable quarters and meals at reasonable
prices, supply guides, and generally fulfil a useful purpose."
_Evening Standard_.
But surely the British Ambassador has already fairly comfortable
quarters in the Rue Faubourg St. Honore.
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SMALL CRAFT.
When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King PHILIP'S pride,
He had great ships at his bidding and little ones beside;
_Revenge_ was there, and _Lion_, and others known to fame,
And likewise he had small craft, which hadn't any name.
Small craft--small craft, to harry and to flout 'em!
Small craft--small craft, you cannot do without 'em!
Their deeds are unrecorded, their names are never seen,
But we know that there were small craft, because there must have been.
When NELSON was blockading for three long years and more,
With many a bluff first-rater and oaken seventy-four,
To share the fun and fighting, the good chance and the bad,
Oh, he had also small craft, because he must have had.
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