Under the beading " Success of Recruiting Canvass," the Times
of Tuesday declares that the canvass conducted by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee is "progressing most satisfactorily." We most sincerely trust that this roseate view is correct. As yet only two of the nine military com- mands—the Eastern and Southern—have been dealt with, but the London district will be taken in hand at the beginning of the New Year. Thousands, we are told, have already joined the colours, and tens of thousands have declared that they will come up later if called on. Apart from this somewhat oracular statement, the article contains one of the best and most moving true recruiting stories that we have ever seen. Among the replies was a letter which ran as follows : "` My master wont to know if i ham obliged to join your Army has he hay no one to put to look after the sheep.' He adds—' Please rite back to me and say yes, and then I will go up to Worcester, and then it will save all bother for your obedient servant' ; and there is the postscript :—' Please mind wot you put in the letter so that I can show it to the master.'"
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