[英文] 幽默的貝登堡上校

Colonel Baden Powell as a Humourist.

The Spanish-American War opened, it will be remembered, with a flourish of trumpets and the wholesale slaughter of one solitary mule. Colonel Baden-Powell has now gone one better, and sent a telegram, "All well. Four hours' bombardment. Dog killed." That Mafeking dog should live in history beside the Matanzas mule. The jest is thoroughly in character. The gallant Colonel, besides being one of the best pig-stickers and sportsmen in India, is well-known as a first-rate low comedy actor or stage buffoon. He and Major Hobday are the two licensed jesters and caricaturists of Anglo-Indian society; the present anecdote recalls the spirit of one of Major Hobday's campaigning sketches, entitled "The Last murghi in Upper Swat," which depicts a native soldier in hot pursuit of a shrieking barndoor fowl. A couple of years ago Colonel Baden-Powell created a sensation in Simla by appearing in public disguised as the Ambassador for a foreign Power, and it was not until after he had hastily quitted the scene that the masquerade was discovered. When our campaigns are conducted in this same spirit of light-hearted ribaldry, what chance has the unfortunate Boer? Even in war ridicule kills.

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1. 光緒二十五年十一月十八日《士蔑西報》第3頁

   • 己亥年十一月十八日

   • 公元1899年12月20日（星期三）