“Now tell us what ’twas all about,” Young Peterkin, he cries. And little Wilhelmine looks up With wonder-waiting eyes; “Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for?” Like the children in Mr. Southey’s poem, you will want to know first of all why we joined in with France and Russia in the great war against Germany and Austria. Well, the answer in a word is—Belgium.…
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