The Medit'ranean and Red Sea.
Education Act The Education Act proposes
To make us all as wise as Moses;
In eighteen-seven-nought it passed,
But each is learning to the last.
Ballot Act A couple of years from this we note
1872 The Ballot Act gives secret vote;
Before this Act, e'en since we fear,
Folks sold their votes for draughts of beer.

[Illustration: IRON JELLOIDS The Great Tonic

_WOMEN TOOK TO SPADE AND HOE._]

Edward VII. Edward Seven, 'Peacemaker' named,
1901-1910 His efforts to this end far famed.
We know it was no idle chance
His 'Entente cordiale' with France.
True friendship and the peace we want
The outcome of this grand Entente.
Though not accented in our rhyme
We've been fighting all the time;
And it's a fact which must be stated
Our chief opponent (so 'twas fated)
Wars with Our nearest neighbour o'er the Sea
France Whose 'No' is 'Non'; whose 'Yes' is 'Oui';
Like two schoolboys always sparring
Eight hundred years together warring;
From Hastings unto Waterloo
We'd battles with the brave 'Mossoo.'
Now Honi soit qui still y pense;
Hurrah for England! Vive la France!

And here we come to end our rhymes
We've reached the present stirring times,
When one and all lent helping hand
To keep secure the Motherland.
When men went forth to fight the foe
And women took to spade and hoe,
And donning smocks of nattiest styles,
Worked on the land for Farmer Giles.
Now three cheers for the dainty maids,
Government clerks of different grades;

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Nor are we likely to forget
Our debt to the Munitionette.
The We seem to have subdued the Hun
Present Time And so farewell (our task is done)
To Anzacs-Indians-Poilus-Yanks--
Italians-Belgians-Japs-and-Tanks.

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Concerning
MEN and TONICS

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