6 JANUARY 1917, Page 24

" GOD BLESS MY FATHER DEAR."

(To THE EDITOR 07 TEE SPECTATOR."] Bra,—The wife of an officer, now in the fighting line, has taught her little boy of three to sing before he sleeps at night the National Anthem. He adds this hymn of his own, in the same metre :- " God bless my father dear, And bring him safely here

After his soldiering 1 To give my mother joy, And cheer his little boy, And sing the old Envoi,

' God Save the King.'" The father, I should explain, has won renown in the trenches as a singer of good songs.—I am, Sir, &c., R. E.