THE GRAND DUKE

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 May 1916, Page 3

THE GRAND DUKE

(By Walt. Mason.) The Grand Duke Nicholas was canned some eight or seven months ago; his ill-found soldiers could not fit and against the well-armed, full-fed foe. His men were armed with rusty guns, and had no powder and leas shot; they could not face the fighting Huns, or yet endure the German swat. Remarked the Russian ruler then, "Grand .Duke, you fail to out the grass; I'll sendi you with a bunch of men to guard some lonesome mountain pass." •'All right, my liege," the Graind Duke cried, before the monarch bending low, '"your orders 111 obey with pride, for what you say muet always go." A tinhorn Duke might well have cussed, and nursed a sore end a oiling head, and vowed his treatment Avas unjust, and grouched ai'ound till ho was dead. But, smiling, Nicholas retired, and led h : s bunch of also-rans, a group of has-beens, worn and tired, to play before the bush league fans. But, oh, how Nu-holas came back, <tndi led his to the front, and' g ; i vo the Turks a deadly crack, till Russia gloried in his stunt! Say, do you sit around and curse, when you've been taken down a notch, or grandly rise above reverse, till all the world your smoke mugt watchP