A. Not only sad, but confoundedly undignified.

Q. And do you not object to your condition generally?

A. Yes, certainly.  And let me tell you the subject is the burning one of the hour!

Q. And what do you think of other matters affecting the welfare of the Army?

A.  That they are merely details that can safely wait indefinitely the consideration of the Authorities!

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THE “WHETHER” AND THE PARKS.

To ask The RANGER and the Right Honourable Mr. PLUNKET, or “Plunketto,” as the name appears in the opera of Marta—­

Whether there cannot be some improvement made in that Despondent Slough known as Rotten Row?

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Whether Kensington Gardens, now sacred to nursery-maids and their charges, and a few loungers, couldn’t be opened up with one or two good rides right across, and a few intersecting bridle-paths, after the fashion of the Bois de Boulogne, and thus relieve the monotony of the Row, which is getting more and more Rotten after every shower, and more and more crowded every summer?

Whether, as every equestrian is rightly complaining, something cannot be done in time for the season of 1892?

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