Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3830/The Opportunists

by R. A. Thorold

THE OPPORTUNISTS.

'Tis a strange portent of the war
 That every advertiser
Desires to be indebted for
 His income to the Kaiser;
   At all events
He's got the goods for military gents.

"Pypp's Playing-cards," we learn, "dispel
 The longest siege's tedium."
"Tin of Tobacco turns a shell—,
 Great feat by Mascot (medium)."
   "No ally feels
Hungry or tired who carries Ponk's Pastilles."

"The nicest present you can get
 To soothe the soldier's nerve is
Our Black Maria cigarette—
 The best for active service!"
   "All haversacks
Should carry lumps of Entente sealing-wax."

"Ask for our French equivalent
 Of British Oaths. The French is
More chic. A pretty compliment
 To Piou-Piou in the trenches!
   A boon untold
To Indian colonels suffering from the cold!"

 

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