MR. BULL TO MR. CARDWELL.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 551, 16 October 1871, Page 2

MR. BULL TO MR. CARDWELL.

Is my powder dry, Cardvrell, Is my powder dry t If it isn't will you let me Know the reason why ? With my Army estimates, At their figure high, 'Tis a shame Joim Bull must ask you If his powder's dry.

If my Army meet an Army ■ Comiug on the sly, If my Army fought an Army, Would my Army shy ? If my Army faced an Army, And both foueht like men, And that Army licked my Army, How should I look then ?

If an Army meet an ArmySpite of figures high - And that Army found my Army With no Powder dry 1 "What is said by everybody Talking, "in Supply," Jn each soldier's chtb and mess-room's Echoed loud and high—

Tuough your force looks fair on paper Marshalled by the pen, Not a battery has its horses, IS ot a corps its men. Though my Army twice the money That you ask for, cost. If my Army is ad Army; Is the money lost ?

As a peaceful quiet body, I'd of war fight shy, None the less, when war is brewing, Peace I wouldn't cry I If my force, both Foot and Horse, Artillery as well, Shuuld prove, indeed, a broken reed, It -would be a sell !

Don't, iv flattery, call a battery, What is half a one : Count as mounted, troops dismounted. And I shall feel " done!" Then is my powler dry, Cardwell, Is my powder dry ? For if it's not, I pay the shot, • And I will know why ? —Punch.