Just so that other Turkey that sits on the fence between Europe and Asia and gobbles defiance at an avenging world.
The avenging Powers sit round as they have sat round before, waiting each one for the slice he has mentally reserved for himself. But there won’t be any slices!
You may burn, you may shatter
The Turk if you will,
He will rise from his ashes
And roost with you still.
He is the modern incarnation of the indestructible Phœnix Bird.
Nevertheless we must give the Devil his due; the Turks are a fearless people; they have many wives.
The inhabitants of Turkey are the most Moral and Patriotic people in the World, and their army is second to none in bravery and they won the World War.
RUSSIA
Russia comprises one-sixth of the landscape and snowscape of the Globe. Formerly the property of a Czar named Nicholas, it is now owned by a Superczar named Lenine.
The principal objects of interest are Samovars, Soviets, Sables, and the Steppes.
The Steppes of Russia, though vast and quite bare, have nothing to do with those of the Russian Dancers.
At the present stage of Russian Affairs they may better be compared to the well-known Steps to Avernus, which are for descent only—and easy at that!
Today almost the only articles of Russian Manufacture are Natural Ice and Press Dispatches.
Of manufacture of the latter, as regards
volume at least, there has never been such an enorm——*
* Why go on about Russia?
The Reader.
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