Let us remember also the victorious campaign of this year in Mesopotamia; and the welcome stroke of the past week in Greece, by which King "Tino" has been at last dismissed, and the Liberal forces of the Greek nation set free.

* TINO IN EXILE.

[As indicated on another page, TINO'S actual opinion of his Imperial brother-in-law is probably not too amiable; but it has to be disguised in his letters, which are liable to be censored by his wife.] Thank you, dear William, I am fairly well.

My poor old TINO, you are certainly not looking yourself.

Have a drink? Tino.

Tino (bitterly).

Who was the rascal who broke his promise and refused to help you? Tino.

Nobody could. Tino.

AT THE TSAR OF RUSSIA, TINO, TIRPITZ, AND THE REST OF 'EM."] * * * * * MILLIE AND THE "KAYSER.

Which may be roughly rendered: "I suspect TINO, even when he's in receipt of a subsidy.

In other words, Greece has given TINO a penny to play in the next street, and the Allies have lent her the penny.

" [Illustration: THE PERSUADING OF TINO]

As for his future, Mr. Punch ventures on a prediction: Tino, if some day Hellas should arise A phoenix soaring from her present cinders, Think not to share her passage to the skies Or furnish purple copy for her Pindars; You'll be in exile, if you don't take care, Along with brother William, Lord knows where!

Mr. Punch, for example, exasperated by the cumulative effect of Tino's misdeeds, has been goaded into making a formidable forecast of surrender or exit: You say your single aim is just to use Your regal gifts for your beloved nation; Why, then, I see the obvious line to choose, Meaning, of course, the path of abdication; Make up your so-called mindI frankly would To leave your country for your country's good.

He is still the same Kaiser and Constantine the same "Tino," who, as the Berliner Tageblatt bluntly remarks, "has as much right to be heard as a common criminal."

"Tino's" place of exile is not yet fixed.

"R.T. That reminds me that I must write and thank TINO for his letter enclosing a bunch of edelweiss.

He wore the dress of Tino and of all the islands of the Archipelago.

He was a tino tangata (a very manemphatically a man).

The children forthwith agreed amongst themselves that Cook was not only a tino tangata, but a tino rangatiraa combination of a great chief and a perfect gentleman.

The children forthwith agreed amongst themselves that Cook was not only a tino tangata, but a tino rangatiraa combination of a great chief and a perfect gentleman.