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expenses are paid and our demands are satisfied 

 each week, 25s. remains, he may take it. And, if 

 nothing remains, he may take that, and stay his 

 stomach with what the faithful may give him. 

 With a certain grim playfulness, we add that the 

 value of these contributions will be reckoned as 

 so much salary. So long as our " captain " is 

 successful, therefore, a beneficent spring of cash 

 trickles unseen into our treasury ; when it begins 

 to dry up we say, " God bless you, dear boy," turn 

 him adrift (with or without 2s. 4>d. in his pocket), 

 and put some other willing horse in the shafts. 



The " General," I believe, proposes, among other 

 things, to do away with " sweating." May he not 

 as well set a good example by beginning at 

 home ? 



My little sketch, however, looks so like a 

 monstrous caricature that, after all, I must 

 produce the original from the pages of my 

 Canadian authority. He says that a " captain " 

 "has to pay 10 per cent, of all collections and 

 donations to the divisional fund for the support of 

 his divisional officer, who has also the privilege of 

 arranging for such special meetings as he shall 

 think fit, the proceeds of which he takes away for 

 the general needs of the division. Headquarters, 

 too, has the right to hold such special meetings 

 at the corps and send around such special at- 

 tractions as its wisdom sees fit, and to take away 

 the proceeds for the purposes it decides upon. 



