How Not To Take An Opportunity
Undated, grubby and perforated with pin-holes where it had been attached to a succession of files, the letter—printed in imitation typescript and signed with the printed facsimile of a civil servant's signature—ends " The Army Council take this opportunity of conveying to you their appreciation of your long and faithful service and their hope that all good fortune will be with you in the future." It reached my friend, Sergeant- Major B—, fourteen months after he had retired from the Army, in which he served for twenty-two years; and the Army Council, their eyes 'misty with gratitude, had abbreviated the name of his regiment in an incorrect manner which is par- ticularly abhorrent to its members. If the War Office cannot do this sort of thing better, it would be wise not to do it at all.
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