Waterloo! Waterloo! Waterloo! morne gare! as Victor Hugo nearly wrote. With the bi-centenary of the battle coming up on the 18th of June we shall soon all be hard-pressed to avoid awareness of the engagement.
You are therefore invited to add a verse contribution to the commemoration of the anniversary in your own or anyone else’s manner, but at more modest length than V. H. Sixteen lines maximum, please, by 16th August, headed Competition 30, to