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grievance. Just as so small a people had no right to issue such an ultimatum, so now armies so small have no claim to be treated as armies, but only as bands of marauders, guerillas, etc. Considering our difficulty in tackling our tiny adversary, it might appear somewhat mean, as well as irrelevant, to abuse him for his smallness; but such meanness and irrelevance belong to the Jingo spirit, and furnish to bystanders its most exquisite humour. To call it 'hypocrisy' is to spoil its flavour. It is the genuineness of our conviction that 'rights' go by sizes which makes the essence of the case. 'Small people have small rights,' is to us just now a quite self-evident proposition. The humour which other people see in our charges of cowardice against the Boers because they won't stand on the sky-line and let us shoot at them, or come out and mass on the open within range of our guns; the various allegations of unfair fighting we bring against them; the Times with its deprecation of our excessive 'leniency' and 'humanity;' the 'bogus' plots against Lord Roberts; the entire detailed procedure of 'a war undertaken in the cause of justice and civilization' – the lambent humour of all this is unfortunately lost to us in our dull ferocity; but it is there, and others see it.