Yet again, men le as ingenious in overcoming or sterilizing dangers
as he is in inventing them. Threaten men with bogies as much- as you please, and you still cannot prevent. them from fighting when something -makes them see red. There is an entertaining example in history of a bogy which turned out to be a very poor sort of terror. It will be remembered that for a great many years the British Government had somewhere In, a pigeon-hole a prescription for annihilating an enemy, drawn up by Lord Dundonald. At the time of the Crimean War there were many references to Dundonald's plan, and the.Government announced that no doubt it would be quite effective, but that it would not be human to put it into operation against the Russians. Even at the beginning of the present war we remember reading a solemn proposal that Dundonald's plan should at last be brought out of its pigeon-hole. But the whole prescription was published in the Paritnure Paper* some years ago. It proved to be nothing worse than a plan for smoking the enemy out. How a soldier would laugh at the fumes of straw and sulphur to-day !
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