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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/25951-8.txt b/25951-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8bcfbd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/25951-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1703 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Fragments From France, by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Fragments From France + +Author: Captain Bruce Bairnsfather + +Release Date: July 2, 2008 [EBook #25951] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +_By Bruce Bairnsfather_ + +Bullets and Billets + +Fragments from France + +A Few Fragments from His Life + + + + +FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE + + +BY + +CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER + +AUTHOR OF "BULLETS AND BILLETS" + + +[Illustration] + + + G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS + NEW YORK AND LONDON + The Knickerbocker Press + 1917 + + + + +FOREWORD + +_By the Editor of "The Bystander."_ + + +[Illustration: W]HEN Tommy went out to the great war, he went smiling, +and singing the latest ditty of the halls. The enemy scowled. War, said +his professors of kultur and his hymnsters of hate, could never be waged +in the Tipperary spirit, and the nation that sent to the front soldiers +who sang and laughed must be the very decadent England they had all +along denounced as unworthy of world-power. + +I fear the enemy will be even more infuriated when he turns over the +pages of this book. In it the spirit of the British citizen soldier, +who, hating war as he hated hell, flocked to the colours to have his +whack at the apostles of blood and iron, is translated to cold and +permanent print. Here is the great war reduced to grim and gruesome +absurdity. It is not fun poked by a mere looker-on, it is the fun felt +in the war by one who has been through it. + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER.] + +Captain Bruce Bairnsfather has stayed at that "farm" which is portrayed +in the double page of the book; he has endured that shell-swept "'ole" +that is depicted on the cover; he has watched the disappearance of that +"blinkin' parapet" shown on one page; has had his hair cut under fire as +shown on another. And having been through it all, he has just put down +what he has seen and heard and felt and smelt and--laughed at. + +Captain Bairnsfather went to the front in no mood of a "chiel takin' +notes." It was the notes that took him. Before the war, some time a +regular soldier, some time an engineer, he had little other idea than to +sketch for mischief, on walls and shirt cuffs, and tablecloths. Without +the war he might never have put pencil to paper for publication. But the +war insisted. + +It is not for his mere editor to forecast his vogue in posterity. +Naturally I hope it will be a lasting one, but I am prejudiced. Let me, +however, quote a letter which reached Captain Bairnsfather from +somewhere in France: + + "Twenty years after peace has been declared there + will be no more potent stimulus to the + recollections of an old soldier than your + admirable sketches of trench life. May I, with all + deference, congratulate you on your humour, your + fidelity, your something-else not easily + defined--I mean your power of expressing in black + and white a condition of mind." + +I hope that this forecast is a true one. If this sketch book is worthy +to outlast the days of the war, and to be kept for remembrance on the +shelves of those who have lived through it, it will have done its bit. +For will it not be a standing reminder of the _ingloriousness_ of war, +its preposterous absurdity, and of its futility as a means of settling +the affairs of nations? + +When the ardent Jingo of the day after to-morrow rattles the sabre, let +there be somewhere handy a copy of "Fragments from France" that can be +opened in front of him, at any page, just to remind him of what war is +really like as it is fought in "civilised" times. + +Captain Bairnsfather has become a household word--or perhaps one should +say a trench-hold word. Who is ever the worse for a laugh? Certainly not +the soldier in trench or dug-out or shell-swept billet. Rather may it be +said that the Bairnsfather laughter has acted in thousands of cases as +an antidote to the bane of depression. It is the good fortune of the +British Army to possess such an antidote, and the ill-fortune of the +other belligerents that they do not possess its equivalent. + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER + +This picture was taken at the Front, less than a quarter of a mile from +the German trenches. Captain Bairnsfather has come "straight off the +mud," and is wearing a fur coat, a Balaclava helmet, and gum boots. +Immediately behind him is a hole made by a "Jack Johnson" shell.] + +A Scots officer, writing in the _Edinburgh Evening News_, hits the true +sentiment towards Bairnsfather of the Army in France when he writes: + + "To us out here the 'Fragments' are the very + quintessence of life. We sit moping over a smoky + charcoal fire in a dug-out. Suddenly someone, more + wide-awake than others remembers the 'Fragments.' + Out it comes, and we laugh uproariously over each + picture. For are these not the very things we are + witnessing every day, incidents full of tragic + humour? The fed-up spirit you see on the faces of + Bairnsfather's pictures is a sham--a mask beneath + which there lies something that is essentially + British." + +[Illustration] + +In a communication received by Captain Bairnsfather an eminent Member of +Parliament writes: "You are rising to be a factor in the situation, just +as Gillray was a factor in the Napoleonic wars." The difference is, +however, that instead of turning his satire exclusively upon the enemy, +as did Gillray, Captain Bairnsfather turns his--good-humouredly +always--on his fellow-warriors. This habit of ours of making fun of +ourselves has come by now to be fairly well understood by even the most +sensitive and serious-minded of our continental friends and neighbours. +It hardly needs nowadays to be pointed out that it is a fixed condition +of the national life that wherever Britons are working together in any +common object, whether in school, college, profession, or even warfare, +they must never _appear_ to be regarding their occupation too seriously. +Those who know us--and who, nowadays, has the excuse for not knowing us, +seeing how very much we have been discussed?--understand that our +frivolity is apparent and not real. Because we have the gift of +laughter, we are no less appreciative of grim realities than are our +scowling enemies, and nobody knows that better in these days than those +scowling enemies themselves. + +Their hymns of hate and prayers for punishment have been impotent +expressions of exasperation at our coolness, deliberation, and +inflexible determination--qualities they had deluded themselves before +the war into believing would prove all a sham before the first blast of +frightfulness. They told themselves that, a war once actually begun, the +imperturbable pipe-smoking John Bull would be transformed into a +cowering craven. More complete confusion of this false belief is nowhere +to be found than in these "Fragments." It ranks as a colossal German +defeat that successive bloodthirsty assaults upon us by land, sea, and +air should produce a Bairnsfather, depicting the "contemptible little +Army," swollen out of all recognition, settling humorously down to war +as though it were the normal business of life. + +"Fed up"? Yes, that is the word by which to describe, if you like, the +prevalent Bairnsfather expression of countenance. But the kind of +weariness he depicts is the reverse of the kind that implies "give up." +_Au contraire, mes amis!_ The "fed-up" Bairnsfather man is a fixture. +"_J'y suis_," he might exclaim, if he spoke French, "_et il m'embête que +j'y suis. Je voudrais que je n'y sois pas. Mais j'y suis, et, mes bons +camarades, par tous les dieux, j'y reste!_" + +If the enemy should read in the words "fed up" a sign that our tenacity +is giving out, he reads it wrong; grim will be the disillusionment of +any hopes he may build upon his misreading, and even grimmer the anger +of those whom he may have deluded. + +These _verdammte Engländer_ are never what they seem, but are always +something unpleasantly different. We are the Great Enigma of the war, +and in our mystery lies our greatest strength. Let us be careful not to +lose it. Those who would have us simplify ourselves upon the continental +model, and present to the world a picture of sombre seriousness, are +asking us to change our national character. Cromwell asked the painter +to paint him, "warts and all." Bairnsfather sketches us--smiles and all. +And who would take the smiles off the "dials" of the figures you will +see on the pages that follow? + +[Illustration: Where to Live--[ADVT.] + +IN ONE OF THE CHOICEST LOCALITIES OF NORTHERN FRANCE. + +TO BE LET (three minutes from German trenches), this attractive and + + WELL-BUILT DUG-OUT, + +containing one reception-kitchen-bedroom and UP-TO-DATE FUNK HOLE (4ft. +by 6ft.), all modern inconveniences, including gas and water. This +desirable Residence stands one foot above water level, commanding an +excellent view of the enemy trenches. + + EXCELLENT SHOOTING (SNIPE AND DUCK). + +--Particulars of the late Tenant, Room 6, Base Hospital, Bonlog c.] + + +[Illustration: "Where did that one go to?"] + + +[Illustration: + + What is this slimy dismal hole + Where oft I'm lurking like a mole + And cursing Germans heart and soul? + My Dug-Out + + Where is it that beneath the floor + The water's rising more and more + And where the roof's a broken door? + My Dug-Out + + Where is it that I try to sleep + Betwixt alarms, when up I leap + And dash through water four feet deep? + My Dug-Out + + Where is it that I'll catch a chill + And lose my only quinine pill + And probably remain until---- + I'm dug out? + My Dug-Out + +My Dug-Out: A lay of the trenches.] + + +[Illustration: That Evening Star-shell. + + "Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam + Falls on my spirit's troubled dream." + +--_Wolfram's Aria in "Tannhäuser."_] + + +[Illustration: "They've evidently seen me."] + + +[Illustration: Situation Shortly Vacant. + +In an old-fashioned house in France an opening will shortly occur for a +young man, with good prospects of getting a rise.] + + +[Illustration: The Tactless Teuton. + +A member of the Gravediggers' Corps joking with a private in the +Orphans' Battalion, prior to a frontal attack.] + + +[Illustration: "Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it."] + + +[Illustration: Will you be---- + +mine! + +A Proposal in Flanders. + +The point of Jean's pitchfork awakens a sense of duty in a mine that +shirked.] + + +[Illustration: No Possible Doubt Whatever. + +Sentry: "'Alt! Who goes there?" + +He of the Bundle: "You shut yer ---- mouth, or I'll ---- come and knock +yer ---- head off!" + +Sentry: "Pass, friend!"] + + +[Illustration: "Gott strafe this barbed wire."] + + +[Illustration: So Obvious. + +The Young and Talkative One: "Who made that 'ole?" + +The Fed-up One: "Mice."] + + +[Illustration: The Fatalist. + +"I'm sure they'll 'ear this damn thing squeakin'."] + + +[Illustration: A Maxim Maxim. + +"Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself."] + + +[Illustration: Our Adaptable Armies. + +Private Jones (late "Zogitoff," the comedy wire artist) appreciably +reduces the quantity of hate per yard of frontage.] + + +[Illustration: A.D. Nineteen Fifty. + +"I see the War Babies' Battalion is a coming out."] + + +[Illustration: Frustrated Ingenuity. + +Owing to dawn breaking sooner than he anticipated, that inventive +fellow, Private Jones, has a trying time with his latest creation, "The +Little Plugstreet," the sniper's friend.] + + +[Illustration: Keeping His Hand In. + +Private Smith, the company bomber, formerly "Shinio," the popular +juggler, frequently causes considerable anxiety to his platoon.] + + +[Illustration: "---- ---- these ---- ---- rations."] + + +[Illustration: Dear ---- + +"At present we are staying at a farm..."] + + +[Illustration: The Eternal Question. + +"When the 'ell is it goin' to be strawberry?"] + + +[Illustration: Directing the Way at the Front. + +"Yer knows the dead 'orse 'cross the road? Well, keep straight on till +yer comes to a p'rambulator 'longside a Johnson 'ole."] + + +[Illustration: The Late Comer. + +"Where 'ave you been? 'Avin' your bloomin' fortune told?"] + + +[Illustration: The Innocent Abroad. + +Out since Mons: "Well, what sort of a night 'ave yer 'ad?" + +Novice (but persistent optimist): "Oh, alright. 'Ad to get out and rest +a bit now and again."] + + +[Illustration: "There goes our blinkin' parapet again."] + + +[Illustration: "We shall attack at Dawn" + +"Never mind about that now, drink this." + +"The Push"--in Three Chapters. + +By one who's been "Pushed."] + + +[Illustration: "The Spirit of our Troops is Excellent."] + + +[Illustration: The Things that Matter. + +Scene: Loos, during the September offensive. + +Colonel Fitz-Shrapnel receives the following message from "G. H. +Q.":--"Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of +raspberry jam issued to you last Friday."] + + +[Illustration: The Soldier's Dream. + +A "Bitter" disappointment on waking.] + + +[Illustration: The Thirst for Reprisals. + +"'And me a rifle, someone. I'll give these ----s 'ell for this!"] + + +[Illustration: The Ideal and the Real. + +What we should like to see at our billets--and (inset) what we do see.] + + +[Illustration: "Watch me make a fire-bucket of 'is 'elmet."] + + +[Illustration: "That 16-inch Sensation."] + + +[Illustration: That Sword. + +How he thought he was going to use it----] + + +[Illustration: ----and how he did use it.] + + +[Illustration: What It Really Feels Like. + +To be on patrol duty at night-time.] + + +[Illustration: "The same old moon."] + + +[Illustration: "My dream for years to come."] + + +[Illustration: Coiffure in the Trenches. + +"Keep yer 'ead still, or I'll 'ave yer blinkin' ear off."] + + +[Illustration: Another Maxim Maxim. + +"Machine guns form a valuable support for infantry."] + + +[Illustration: Our Democratic Army. + +Member of Navvies' Battalion (to Colonel): "I say, yer mate's dropped +'is cane."] + + +[Illustration: Five days leave! Taxi!] + + +[Illustration: Never Again! + +"In future I snipe from the ground."] + + +[Illustration: Thoroughness. + +"What time shall I call you in the morning, sir?" + +(Colonel Chutney, V.C., home on short leave, decides to keep in touch +with dug-out life.)] + + +[Illustration: That Hat. + +"Pop out and get it, Bert." + +"Pop out yerself."] + + +[Illustration: Springtime in Flanders. + +"Personally, I think this is just what you want for laying your eggs in, +but, as Bairnsfather says, 'If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it.'"] + + +[Illustration: The Dud Shell--Or the Fuse-Top Collector. + +"Give it a good 'ard 'un, Bert; you can generally 'ear 'em fizzing a bit +first if they are a-goin' to explode."] + + +[Illustration: "What's all this about unmarried men?"] + + +[Illustration: The Historical Touch. + +"Well, Alfred, 'ow are the cakes?"] + + +[Illustration: His Initiation. + +No. 99988 Private Blobs (on sentry-go) feels that he has at last +stumbled across the true explanation of that somewhat cryptic +expression, "There'll be dirty work at the cross-roads to-night!"] + + +[Illustration: When One Would Like to Start an Offensive on One's Own. + +RECIPE FOR FEELING LIKE THIS--Bully, biscuits, no coke, and leave just +cancelled.] + + +[Illustration: Trouble With One of the Souvenirs. + +"'Old these a minute while I takes that blinkin' smile off 'is dial."] + + +[Illustration: The Conscientious Exhilarator. + +"_Every encouragement should be given for singing and +whistling._"--(Extract from a "Military Manual.") + +That painstaking fellow, Lieut. Orpheus, does his best, but finds it +uphill work at times.] + + +[Illustration: Its only a tumble down nest But-- + +The Nest. + +"'Ere, when you're finished, I'll borrow that there top note of yours to +clean the knives with."] + + +[Illustration: Those Superstitions. + +Private Sandy McNab cheers the assembly by pointing out (with the aid of +his pocket almanac) that it is Friday the 13th and that their number is +one too many.] + + +[Illustration: The Professional Touch. + +"Chuck us out that bag o' bombs, mate; it's under your 'ead."] + + +[Illustration: Happy Memories of the Zoo. + +"What Time do they Feed the Sea-Lions, Alf?"] + + +[Illustration: Observation. + +"'Ave a squint through these 'ere, Bill; you can see one of the ----'s +eatin' a sausage as clear as anythin'."] + + +[Illustration: Immediate and Important! + +Never has Private Smith's face felt so large and smooth as when he hands +his Captain the following message at what he feels is an unsuitable +moment: "The G.O.C. notices with regret the tendency of all ranks to +shave the upper lip. This practice must cease forthwith."] + + +[Illustration: Sir Plantagenet Smythe, at the battle of VIN ORDINAIRE +"On! On! ye Noble English!" + +2nd Lieut. P. Smith, at the taking of "dead-pig" farm "Come on you +chaps! We'll show these ----s Which side their ---- bread's buttered!" + +Other Times, Other Manners. + +The Decline of Poetry and Romance in War.] + + +[Illustration: His Dual Obsession. + +Owing to the frequent recurrence of this dream, Herr Fritz von +Lagershifter has decided to take his friends' advice: Give up sausage +late at night and brood less upon the possible size of the British Army +next spring.] + + +[Illustration: The Communication Trench. + +PROBLEM--Whether to walk along the top and risk it, or do another mile +of this.] + + +[Illustration: Letting Himself Down. + +Having omitted to remove the elastic band prior to descent, Herr Franz +von Flopp feels that the trial exhibition of his new parachute is a +failure.] + + +[Illustration: Old Saws and New Meanings----By Bairnsfather. + +There is certainly a lot of truth in that Napoleonic maxim, "An army +moves on its stomach."] + + +[Illustration: Nobbled. + +"'Ow long are you up for, Bill?" + +"Seven years." + +"Yer lucky ----, I'm duration."] + + +[Illustration: The Intelligence Department. + +"Is this 'ere the Warwicks?" + +"Nao. 'Indenburg's blinkin' Light Infantry."] + + +[Illustration: Valuable Fragment from Flanders: It All Comes to This in +Time. + +"This interesting fragment, found near Ypres (known to the ancients as +Wipers), throws a light on a subject which has long puzzled science, +i.e., what was the origin and meaning of those immense zigzag slots in +the ground stretching from Ostend to Belfort? There is no doubt that +there was some inter-tribal war on at this period."--_Extract from_ +"_The Bystander_," A.D. 4916.] + + +[Illustration: In Nineteen Something: General Sir Ian Jelloid at Home. + +Having picked up this cherished possession for a mere song at a sale +near Verdun, the General has now let his country seat, "Shrapnel Park," +and says he finds the new abode infinitely cheaper, and not a bit +draughty, if you keep the breech closed.] + + +[Illustration: In and Out (I). + +That last half-hour before "going in" to the same trenches for the 200th +time.] + + +[Illustration: In and Out (II). + +That first half-hour after "coming out" of those same trenches.] + + +[Illustration: THE 1ST BLOBSHIRE RIFLES EXPERT GAS & BOMB MANIPULATORS +TRENCHES TAKEN AT SHORTEST NOTICE COUNTER ATTACKS QUOTED FOR OUR +SPECIALITY: HOLDING MINE CRATERS FOR 24 HOURS + +TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "PLUMAPPLE" PLUGSTREET + +Pushfulness at Plug Street. + +Colonel Ian Jelloid, of the Blobshire Rifles, being an energetic and +businesslike man, believes in advertising as an antidote to stagnant +warfare.] + + +[Illustration: His Secret Sorrow. + +"I reckon this bloke must 'ave caught 'is face against some of them +forts at Verdun!"] + + +[Illustration: Are you there? + +"Only just" + +"S.O.S." + +The Hard Lines of Communication.] + + +[Illustration: The New Submarine Danger. + +"They'll be torpedoin' us if we stick 'ere much longer, Bill."] + + +[Illustration: This interesting view for 6 months ... or + +This for half an hour + +War! + +--As it is for most of us.] + + +[Illustration: A Matter of Moment. + +"What was that, Bill?" + +"Trench mortar." + +"Ours or theirs?"] + + +[Illustration: The Saint. + +That indiscriminating orb, the moon, gives Private Scattergood a saintly +appearance, sadly out of keeping with his thoughts. He's filling 100 +sandbags at 11 p.m.] + + +[Illustration: Those Tubular Trenches. + +"Is this right for 'eadquarters?" + +"Yes, change at Oxford Circus."] + + +[Illustration: "Of course, personally I dont think there is anyone +there" + +"Nor do I" + +Thinking it over subsequently in Boulogne,--an impression of +overcrowding predominates in recollections of "straighthing" that bit of +the line. + +"We Look Before----And After."] + + +[Illustration: Con Moto Perpetuo. + +"OUR BERT" (going on leave--having asked a question, and having listened +to three minutes' unintelligible eloquence): "And 'ow does the chorus +go?"] + + +[Illustration: Real Sympathy. + +"I wish you'd get something for that ---- cough of yours. That's the +second time you've blown the blinkin' candle out!"] + + +[Illustration: Entanglements. + +"Come on, Bert, it's safer in the trenches."] + + +[Illustration: "How long have you got Fred?" + +"LEAVE."] + + +[Illustration: There are times when Private Lightfoot feels absolutely +convinced that it's going to be a War of Exhaustion.] + + +[Illustration: Chat on 'Change. + +"You owes me two francs and I owes you one that's got into the lining of +me coat; that makes it right, don't it?"] + + +[Illustration: General Sir Frampton Prendergasp R.S.V.P. P.T.O. SOS a +rising and successful general, who is plotting an offensive + +The General . . . Cyrus Moffat + +Nancy Prendergasp, his daughter, who has gone in for nursing, unknown to +her father. She is in love with ---- + +Featuring Miss Sybil Fane + +DICK MANVERS a lance Corporal in the pay department, who, after +extensive & painful researches, has invented a new bomb + +"DICK" + +Steven Fairbrother + +Dick shows his new bomb to the General who decides to use it in the +offensive + +But is overheard and seen by Captain ADRIAN BLACK an unscrupulous +adventurer in the pay of a powerful Government + +That night he is seen by Nancy substituting PLUM & APPLE for The new +explosive + +END OF PART I + +PART II + +WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY + +Flanders Film Mfg Co--Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S.A.] + +[Illustration: The Offensive begins. The new bomb is found to be equally +explosive in spite of Captain Black's dark deed + +Nancy, who fears disaster, steals her Father's private Howitzer and +races to the Offensive + +Black throws every obstacle in her way + +"Dont you know me Dick?" + +The General, who has been doing a bit on his own, becomes the unwilling +witness of a touching scene + +The General having heard their story, orders the arrest of Captain Black + +How Dick Manvers Got His Star. + +Every familiar feature of the Film is happily caricatured by Captain +Bairnsfather in his amusing page of pictures. The hero, the heroine +(with smile), the villain, the heavy father, all of the most approved +pattern--everything down to the meticulous inaccuracy characteristic of +the American film in matters of detail, is shown with the good-natured +sarcasm befitting a master of satire as well as of humour, while the +story tells itself with breathless enthusiasm.] + + +[Illustration: The Whip Hand. + +Private Mulligatawny (the Australian Stock-whip wonder) frequently +causes a lot of bother in the enemy's trenches.] + + +[Illustration: Christmas Day: How it dawned for many.] + + +[Illustration: "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy +stands."] + + +[Illustration: Veni 1914 + +Vidi 1915 + +Vici! 1916 + +Augusts Three. + +To each year its type.] + + + +[Illustration: Overheard in an Orchard. + +Said the Apple to the Plum: "Well, anyway, old man, they can never ask +us what we did in the great war!"] + + +[Illustration: LEARN To FIGHT + +Anyone with a taste for Fishing, or Moth Collecting can learn to fight. + +Anyone can put a hook in a worm, or a pin in a moth. WE DEVELOP THAT +INSTINCT, and by our Postal Course of Instruction, will help you to earn +big money by fighting + +Subjects Taught:-- + +Bayonet work, bombing, & asphyxiation. + +This sketch shows the work of a former pupil. Try this exercise yourself +on a friend, and tell us the result. We will at once tell you your +chances of success. + +A lieutenant writes:-- + +Unfortunately I had not got as far as your chapter on Upper Cuts or I +feel sure I should not be where I am now + +yrs truly + +Clearing Station GezainCourt. + +Bruce Bairnsfather + +The demand for fighters exceeds the supply + +Write today + +The Asphyxobomb School of Instruction + +[Advt] Hooge. + + +Tips for Tommies. + +Now that the war has become a world business, we must at any moment +expect the appearance of this sort of thing in our papers.] + + +[Illustration: Whilst the preliminary bombardment is on, one gets the +idea that this is what's happening to the enemy machine guns. + +Yet somehow or other, when one starts for that 220 yards handicap across +the turnip field, it feels something like this. + +Bruce Bairnsfather + +The Offensive. + +What it looks like--and what it feels like.] + + +[Illustration: "The Imminent, Deadly Breach." + +"Mind you don't fall through the seat of yer trousers, 'Arry!"] + + +[Illustration: Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat +as one. + +Telepathy. + +"Two minds with but a single thought."] + + +[Illustration: Trouville-sur-Somme. + +"Tell 'er to 'op it, Bert. I'm sittin' on a bit o' shell or +somethin'."] + + +[Illustration: Omar the Optimist. + + "Here with a loaf of bread beneath the row, + A muttered curse, but ne'er a whine, and thou-- + Beside me, singing in the wilderness, + The wilderness is Paradise enow."] + + +[Illustration: "Where do yer want this put, Sargint?"] + + +[Illustration: Coming to the Point. + +"Let's 'ave this pin of yours a minute. I'll soon 'ave these winkles out +of 'ere."] + + +[Illustration: A Castle in the Air. + +"A few more, Bert, and that there château won't be worth livin' in."] + + +[Illustration: The Freedom of the Seas. + +"I wish they'd 'old this war in England--don't you, Bill?" (No +answer.)] + + +[Illustration: In Dixie-Land. + +"Well, Friday--'ow's Crusoe?"] + + +[Illustration: Alas! Poor Herr Von Yorick! + +Fricourt--July, 1916.] + + +[Illustration: Those Signals. + +THE VIGILANT ONE: "I say, old chap, what does two green lights and one +red one mean?" + +RECUMBENT GLADIATOR (just back from leave): "Two crêmes de menthe and a +cherry brandy!"] + + +[Illustration: His Christmas Goose. + +"You wait till I comes off dooty!"] + + +[Illustration: Urgent. + +"Quick, afore this comes down!"] + + +[Illustration: That tin hat feels something like this on the way to the +Offensive + +And about like this when you get there + +My Hat! + +Helmets, Shrapnel, One.] + + +[Illustration: The Candid Friend. + +"Well, yer know, I like the photo of you in your gas mask best."] + + +[Illustration: The Long and the Short of It. + +UP LAST DRAFT: "I suppose you 'as to be careful 'ow you looks over the +parapet about 'ere." + +OUT SINCE MONS: "You needn't worry, me lad; the rats are going to be +your only trouble."] + + +[Illustration: "Old Moore" at the Front. + +"As far as I can make out from this 'ere prophecy-book, Bill, the +seventh year is going to be the worst, and after that every +fourteenth!"] + + +[Illustration: Supra-Normal. + +Captain Mills-Bomme's temperature cracks the thermometer on seeing his +recent daring exploits described as "On our right there is nothing to +report." + +(_He and his battalion had merely occupied three lines of German +trenches, and held them through a storm of heavy Lyddite for forty-eight +hours._)] + + +[Illustration: 'old these ---- biscuits a minute while I 'as a go at +this ---- stuff + +"Where the ---- 'ell are ye comin to!" + +"---- your ---- eyes you can ---- well carry these ---- things yerself" + +"yer ---- well wants elephants for this job" + +Tactical Developments. + +Private 9998 Blobs has always thought a machine for imitating the sound +of ration parties (and thus drawing fire) an excellent idea, but simply +hates his evening for working it.] + + +[Illustration: Bang Bang + +Crash + +Bang + +Crash + +That "Out Wiring" Sensation.] + + +[Illustration: Natural History of the War + +The Flanders Sea Lion (Leo Maritimus). + +"An almost extinct amphibian, first discovered in Flanders during the +Winter of 1914-15. Feeds almost exclusively on Plum and Apple Jam and +Rum. Only savage when the latter is knocked off."] + + +[Illustration: Things that Irritate. + +Private Wm. Jones is not half so annoyed at accidentally falling down +the mine crater as he is at hearing two friends murmuring the first +verse of "Don't go down the mine, Daddy."] + + +[Illustration: Still Keeping His Hand In. + +Private Smith (late Shinio, the popular juggler) appreciably lowers the +protective value of his section's shrapnel helmets by practising his +celebrated plate and basin spinning act.] + + +[Illustration: Those ---- Mouth-Organs. + +"Keep away from the 'ive, Bert; 'e's goin' to sting yer!"] + + +[Illustration: Garcong! the bill, tres vite! + +That Provost-Marshal Feeling. + +A sensation only to be had at a Base--in other words, a base +sensation.] + + +[Illustration: Blighty!] + + +[Illustration: Those Raiders at the Seat of War. + +"I wish the 'ell you'd put a cork on that blinkin' pin of yours, +Bert!"] + + +[Illustration: Romance, 1917. + +"Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (engaged).] + + +[Illustration: Modern Topography. + +"Well, you see, here's the church and there's the post-office."] + + +[Illustration: "There Was a Young Man of Cologne." + +(I've forgotten the rest of the poem, but it's something about "a bomb" +and "If only he'd known.")] + + +[Illustration: In the Support Trench. + +Old Bill has practically decided to get Private Shinio (the +ex-comedy-juggler and hand-balancer) transferred to another platoon.] + + +[Illustration: It's the Little Things that Worry. + +What is so particularly annoying to Private Lovebird is, that he would +not have had this bother with his dug-out if his leave had not been +postponed.] + + +[Illustration: That Periscope Sensation. + +"I wonder if I oughtn't to tell the captain about that thing sticking up +in the sea over there."] + + +[Illustration: At the Brewery Baths. + +"You chuck another sardine at me, my lad, and you'll hear from my +solicitors."] + + +[Illustration: A Miner Success. + +"They must 'ave 'ad some good news or somethin', Alf; you can 'ear 'em +cheerin' quite plain."] + + +[Illustration: Birds of Ill Omen. + +"There's evidently goin' to be an offensive around 'ere, Bert."] + + +[Illustration: If Only They'd Make "Old Bill" President of Those +Tribunals. + +"Well, what's your job, me lad?" + +"Making spots for rocking-horses, sir." + +"Three months." + +"Exemption, sir?" + +"Nao, exemption be ----d! Three months' hard!"] + + +[Illustration: "Stars is funny things aint they Bill" + +"Yes--funny!" + +The Stargazers. + +--and their return to earth.] + + +[Illustration: Down at the Ration Dump. + +"Call me a Tank again, my lad, and I'll knock yer ---- 'ead off!"] + + +[Illustration: The Glorious Fifth. + +"'Ere, Guy Fawkes--buzz off!"] + + +[Illustration: "Yes, you are, one pound nineteen and elevenpence +overdrawn, and that includes next month's pay" + +Cox's. + +When one feels rather in favour of floating a War Loan of one's own.] + + +[Illustration: This Muddy War. + +"These 'ere staff cars do splash a lot, don't they, Bill?" (No +answer.)] + + +[Illustration: Unappetising. + +Moments when the Savoy, the Alhambra, and the Piccadilly Grill seem very +far away (the offensive starts in half an hour).] + + +[Illustration: Fred's got leave! + +That Leave Train + +Second lieutenant Enoch Arden arrives on leave + +Fred! + +"The train was a bit late darling" + +That "Leave" Train.] + + +[Illustration: One often hears the question:-- + +"What could Napoleon have done in the Great War?" + +He could certainly not have gone in for this + +It would have to be this, or nothing + +Other Times----Other Manners.] + + +[Illustration: The Tourists, 19..? + +"Remember this place, Bert?" + +"Yes, it's where we used to chuck the fish to you, ain't it, Bill?"] + + +[Illustration: Alas! My poor Brother! + +(_In this cartoon Captain Bairnsfather refers to the report that the +corpses of German soldiers fallen in battle were utilised in a +Corpse-Conversion Factory for the purpose of providing fats for the +Fatherland._)] + + +[Illustration: Can-Tank-erous. + +"'Ere! Where the 'ell are ye comin' with that Turkish bath o' yours?"] + + +[Illustration: Curfew. + +What particularly annoys Lieutenant Jones, R.F.A. (who thought he could +get a better view from the belfry), is that irritating prediction which +keeps passing through his head, "The curfew shall not ring to-night."] + + +[Illustration: TAISEZ VOUS! MÉFIEZ VOUS LES OREILLES ENSEMBLE VOUS +ÉCOUTENT + +On the "Leave" Train. + +You will never quite realise how closely we are bound to our French Ally +until you have had the good fortune to travel on one of those "leave" +trains--six a side, windows shut, fifty miles to go, and eighteen hours +to do it!] + + +[Illustration: Getting the Local Colour. + +In that rare and elusive period known as "Leave" it is necessary to +reconstruct the "Atmosphere" of the front as far as possible in order to +produce the weekly "Fragment."] + + +[Illustration: The Ghost of Dead Pig Farm--19..? + +At midnight, an indignant, husky voice is heard to say: "B---- these +blinkin' sandbags."] + + +[Illustration: George versus Germany. + +Should Mr. Robey be at any time called upon to go to the Front, he must +be careful how he does this: "I'm surprised at you, Ludendorff!"] + + +[Illustration: A Puzzle for Paderewski. + +"It's a pity Alf ain't 'ere, Bert; 'e can play the piana wonderful."] + + +[Illustration: "Substitutes" in the Field. + +"I thought you said your uncle was a sending you an umbrella."] + + +[Illustration: Leave. + +Dep.: Paddington 2.15. Arr. Home 4.] + + +[Illustration: ROLLS-DAIMLER, 1917.--Four-seated Coupé body (très +coupé). Hardly been used, beautifully finished (almost completely). One +dickey seat (_very_ dickey), detachable rims (two already detached). +Only driven 10 miles (Albert to Gommecourt). Excellent shock absorber +(has absorbed any amount). In exceptional condition. £650 (or good bath +chair). BARGAIN.--Captain Somepush, No. 2, Red Cross, Rouen.] + + +[Illustration: Merely a Warning. + +You dirty dog + +To those who may be contemplating picking up a Government car cheaply +after the war. Insist on seeing photograph. Don't be satisfied by just +reading the advertisements.] + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's notes: + +With the three noted exceptions, punctuation anomalies were retained to +match the original drawings. The exceptions are in the books printed +explanations, not in any cartoon. + +Page 5, period added to illustration caption ("Jack Johnson" shell.) + +Page 112, single opening quote changed to double. ("You wait till I) + +Page 125, period added to title of picture to match rest of format (That +Provost-Marshal Feeling.) + +Pages 93 and 98 were halves of the same comic. They were reattached to +aid readability. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Fragments From France + +Author: Captain Bruce Bairnsfather + +Release Date: July 2, 2008 [EBook #25951] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 269px;"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="269" height="400" alt="Cover" title="Cover" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h3><i><span class='u'>By Bruce Bairnsfather</span></i></h3> + +<h4>Bullets and Billets</h4> + +<h4>Fragments from France</h4> + +<div class='center'><b>A Few Fragments from His Life</b></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span></p> +<h1>FRAGMENTS<br /> +FROM FRANCE</h1> + + +<h3>BY</h3> + +<h2>CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER</h2> + +<div class='center'>AUTHOR OF "BULLETS AND BILLETS"<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 24px;"> +<img src="images/flower.png" width="24" height="25" alt="flower" title="flower" /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><br /> +G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS<br /> +NEW YORK AND LONDON<br /> +The Knickerbocker Press<br /> +1917<br /></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='tnote'><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> Where text is included in a cartoon and a closer look would be +aid in readability, links are provided to larger images. These links are indicated +by underlines on the caption title providing your browser supports such linking.</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> + +<h2>FOREWORD</h2> + +<div class='center'><i>By the Editor of "The Bystander."</i></div> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 100px;"> +<img src="images/w.png" width="100" height="79" alt="W" title="W" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br />HEN Tommy went out to the great war, he went +smiling, and singing the latest ditty of the halls. The +enemy scowled. War, said his professors of kultur +and his hymnsters of hate, could never be waged in the Tipperary +spirit, and the nation that sent to the front soldiers who sang and +laughed must be the very decadent England they had all along +denounced as unworthy of world-power.</div> + +<p>I fear the enemy will be even more infuriated when he turns +over the pages of this book. In it the spirit of the British citizen +soldier, who, hating war as he +hated hell, flocked to the +colours to have his whack at +the apostles of blood and iron, +is translated to cold and permanent +print. Here is the +great war reduced to grim and +gruesome absurdity. It is not +fun poked by a mere looker-on, +it is the fun felt in the war by +one who has been through it.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/illus004.jpg" width="301" height="400" alt="CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER." title="CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER." /> +<span class="caption">CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER.</span> +</div> + +<p>Captain Bruce Bairnsfather +has stayed at that +"farm" which is portrayed in +the double page of the book;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +he has endured that shell-swept "'ole" that is depicted on the cover; +he has watched the disappearance of that "blinkin' parapet" shown +on one page; has had his hair cut under fire as shown on another. +And having been through it all, he has just put down what he has +seen and heard and felt and smelt and—laughed at.</p> + +<p>Captain Bairnsfather went to the front in no mood of a "chiel +takin' notes." It was the notes that took him. Before the war, +some time a regular soldier, some time an engineer, he had little +other idea than to sketch for mischief, on walls and shirt cuffs, and +tablecloths. Without the war he might never have put pencil to +paper for publication. But the war insisted.</p> + +<p>It is not for his mere editor to forecast his vogue in posterity. +Naturally I hope it will be a lasting one, but I am prejudiced. Let +me, however, quote a letter which reached Captain Bairnsfather +from somewhere in France:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Twenty years after peace has been declared there will +be no more potent stimulus to the recollections of an old +soldier than your admirable sketches of trench life. May +I, with all deference, congratulate you on your humour, +your fidelity, your something-else not easily defined—I +mean your power of expressing in black and white a condition +of mind."</p></div> + +<p>I hope that this forecast is a true one. If this sketch book is +worthy to outlast the days of the war, and to be kept for remembrance +on the shelves of those who have lived through it, it will +have done its bit. For will it not be a standing reminder of the +<i>ingloriousness</i> of war, its preposterous absurdity, and of its futility +as a means of settling the affairs of nations?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></p> +<div class="figright" style="width: 169px;"> +<img src="images/illus006.jpg" width="169" height="300" alt="CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER" title="CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER" /> +<span class="caption">CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER<br /> +<small>This picture was taken at the Front, less than a +quarter of a mile from the German trenches. +Captain Bairnsfather has come "straight off the +mud," and is wearing a fur coat, a Balaclava +helmet, and gum boots. Immediately behind +him is a hole made by a "Jack Johnson" shell.</small></span> +</div> + +<p>When the ardent Jingo of the day after to-morrow rattles the +sabre, let there be somewhere handy a copy of "Fragments from +France" that can be opened in front of him, at any page, just to +remind him of what war is really like as it is fought in "civilised" +times.</p> + +<p>Captain Bairnsfather has become a household word—or perhaps +one should say a trench-hold word. Who is ever the worse for a +laugh? Certainly not the soldier in trench or dug-out or shell-swept +billet. Rather may it be said that the Bairnsfather laughter +has acted in thousands of cases as an antidote to the bane of +depression. It is the good fortune of the British Army to possess +such an antidote, and the ill-fortune +of the other belligerents +that they do not possess its +equivalent.</p> + + +<p>A Scots officer, writing in the +<i>Edinburgh Evening News</i>, hits the +true sentiment towards Bairnsfather +of the Army in France +when he writes:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"To us out here the +'Fragments' are the very +quintessence of life. We +sit moping over a smoky +charcoal fire in a dug-out. +Suddenly someone, more +wide-awake than others remembers +the 'Fragments.' +Out it comes, and we laugh<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +uproariously over each picture. For are these not the +very things we are witnessing every day, incidents full of +tragic humour? The fed-up spirit you see on the faces of +Bairnsfather's pictures is a sham—a mask beneath which +there lies something that is essentially British."</p></div> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 182px;"> +<img src="images/illus007.png" width="182" height="300" alt="Man smoking" title="Man smoking" /> +</div> + +<p>In a communication received by Captain Bairnsfather an eminent +Member of Parliament writes: "You are rising to be a factor +in the situation, just as Gillray was a factor in the Napoleonic +wars." The difference is, however, that instead of turning his +satire exclusively upon the enemy, as did Gillray, Captain Bairnsfather +turns his—good-humouredly always—on +his fellow-warriors. This habit of ours of +making fun of ourselves has come by now to +be fairly well understood by even the most +sensitive and serious-minded of our continental +friends and neighbours. It hardly needs nowadays +to be pointed out that it is a fixed condition +of the national life that wherever Britons are +working together in any common object, whether in school, college, +profession, or even warfare, they must never <i>appear</i> to be regarding +their occupation too seriously. Those who know us—and who, +nowadays, has the excuse for not knowing us, seeing how very +much we have been discussed?—understand that our frivolity is +apparent and not real. Because we have the gift of laughter, we +are no less appreciative of grim realities than are our scowling +enemies, and nobody knows that better in these days than those +scowling enemies themselves.</p> + +<p>Their hymns of hate and prayers for punishment have been +impotent expressions of exasperation at our coolness, deliberation,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +and inflexible determination—qualities they had deluded themselves +before the war into believing would prove all a sham before +the first blast of frightfulness. They told themselves that, a war +once actually begun, the imperturbable pipe-smoking John Bull +would be transformed into a cowering craven. More complete +confusion of this false belief is nowhere to be found than in these +"Fragments." It ranks as a colossal German defeat that successive +bloodthirsty assaults upon us by land, sea, and air should +produce a Bairnsfather, depicting the "contemptible little Army," +swollen out of all recognition, settling humorously down to war as +though it were the normal business of life.</p> + +<p>"Fed up"? Yes, that is the word by which to describe, if you +like, the prevalent Bairnsfather expression of countenance. But +the kind of weariness he depicts is the reverse of the kind that +implies "give up." <i>Au contraire, mes amis!</i> The "fed-up" +Bairnsfather man is a fixture. "<i>J'y suis</i>," he might exclaim, if he +spoke French, "<i>et il m'embête que j'y suis. Je voudrais que je n'y sois +pas. Mais j'y suis, et, mes bons camarades, par tous les dieux, j'y +reste!</i>"</p> + +<p>If the enemy should read in the words "fed up" a sign that our +tenacity is giving out, he reads it wrong; grim will be the disillusionment +of any hopes he may build upon his misreading, and +even grimmer the anger of those whom he may have deluded.</p> + +<p>These <i>verdammte Engländer</i> are never what they seem, but are +always something unpleasantly different. We are the Great Enigma +of the war, and in our mystery lies our greatest strength. Let +us be careful not to lose it. Those who would have us simplify +ourselves upon the continental model, and present to the world +a picture of sombre seriousness, are asking us to change our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +national character. Cromwell asked the painter to paint him, +"warts and all." Bairnsfather sketches us—smiles and all. And +who would take the smiles off the "dials" of the figures you will +see on the pages that follow?</p> +<div class='bbox'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"><span class="caption">Where to Live—[ADVT.]</span> +<img src="images/illus009.jpg" width="300" height="207" alt="Where to Live—[ADVT.]" title="Where to Live—[ADVT.]" /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><b><small>IN ONE OF THE CHOICEST LOCALITIES OF +NORTHERN FRANCE.</small></b></div> + +<div class='unindent'><b><small>TO BE LET (three minutes from German trenches), this attractive and</small></b></div> + +<div class='center'> +<small><b>WELL-BUILT DUG-OUT,</b></small><br /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'><b><small>containing one reception-kitchen-bedroom and UP-TO-DATE FUNK +HOLE (4ft. by 6ft.), all modern inconveniences, including gas and water. +This desirable Residence stands one foot above water level, commanding an +excellent view of the enemy trenches.</small></b></div> + +<div class='center'> +<small><b>EXCELLENT SHOOTING (SNIPE AND DUCK).</b></small><br /> +<b><small>—Particulars of the late Tenant, Room 6, Base Hospital, Bonlog c.</small></b></div></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 379px;"> +<img src="images/illus010.jpg" width="379" height="500" alt=""Where did that one go to?"" title=""Where did that one go to?"" /> +<span class="caption">"Where did that one go to?"</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 364px;"> +<img src="images/illus011.jpg" width="364" height="500" alt="My Dug-Out: A lay of the trenches." title="My Dug-Out: A lay of the trenches." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus011-big.jpg">My Dug-Out: A lay of the trenches.</a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> +<img src="images/illus012.jpg" width="344" height="500" alt="That Evening Star-shell." title="That Evening Star-shell." /> +<span class="caption">That Evening Star-shell.</span> +</div> +<div class='poem'> +"Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam<br /> +<span style="margin-left: .5em;">Falls on my spirit's troubled dream."</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'><span style="margin-right: 6em;">—<i>Wolfram's Aria in "Tannhäuser."</i></span></div> + + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 348px;"> +<img src="images/illus013.jpg" width="348" height="500" alt=""They've evidently seen me."" title=""They've evidently seen me."" /> +<span class="caption">"They've evidently seen me."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/illus014.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="Situation Shortly Vacant." title="Situation Shortly Vacant." /> +<span class="caption">Situation Shortly Vacant.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>In an old-fashioned house in France an opening will shortly occur for a +young man, with good prospects of getting a rise.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;"> +<img src="images/illus015.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt="The Tactless Teuton." title="The Tactless Teuton." /> +<span class="caption">The Tactless Teuton.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>A member of the Gravediggers' Corps joking with a private in the Orphans' +Battalion, prior to a frontal attack.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/illus016.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt=""Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it."" title=""Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it."" /> +<span class="caption">"Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it."</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> +<img src="images/illus017.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt="A Proposal in Flanders." title="A Proposal in Flanders." /> +<span class="caption">A Proposal in Flanders.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>The point of Jean's pitchfork awakens a sense of duty in a mine that +shirked.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;"> +<img src="images/illus018.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt="No Possible Doubt Whatever." title="No Possible Doubt Whatever." /> +<span class="caption">No Possible Doubt Whatever.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Sentry: "'Alt! Who goes there?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>He of the Bundle: "You shut yer —— mouth, or I'll —— come +and knock yer —— head off!"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Sentry: "Pass, friend!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/illus019.jpg" width="369" height="500" alt=""Gott strafe this barbed wire."" title=""Gott strafe this barbed wire."" /> +<span class="caption">"Gott strafe this barbed wire."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 361px;"> +<img src="images/illus020.jpg" width="361" height="500" alt="So Obvious." title="So Obvious." /> +<span class="caption">So Obvious.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>The Young and Talkative One: "Who made that 'ole?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>The Fed-up One: "Mice."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;"> +<img src="images/illus021.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt="The Fatalist." title="The Fatalist." /> +<span class="caption">The Fatalist.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>I'm sure they'll 'ear this damn thing squeakin'."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 354px;"> +<img src="images/illus022.jpg" width="354" height="500" alt="A Maxim Maxim." title="A Maxim Maxim." /> +<span class="caption">A Maxim Maxim.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;"> +<img src="images/illus023.jpg" width="321" height="400" alt="Our Adaptable Armies." title="Our Adaptable Armies." /> +<span class="caption">Our Adaptable Armies.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Private Jones (late "Zogitoff," the comedy +wire artist) appreciably reduces the quantity +of hate per yard of frontage.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;"> +<img src="images/illus025.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="A.D. Nineteen Fifty." title="A.D. Nineteen Fifty." /> +<span class="caption">A.D. Nineteen Fifty.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"I see the War Babies' Battalion is a coming out."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;"> +<img src="images/illus026.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="Frustrated Ingenuity." title="Frustrated Ingenuity." /> +<span class="caption">Frustrated Ingenuity.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Owing to dawn breaking sooner than he anticipated, that inventive fellow, +Private Jones, has a trying time with his latest creation, "The Little +Plugstreet," the sniper's friend.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 360px;"> +<img src="images/illus027.jpg" width="360" height="500" alt="Keeping His Hand In." title="Keeping His Hand In." /> +<span class="caption">Keeping His Hand In.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Private Smith, the company bomber, formerly "Shinio," the popular +juggler, frequently causes considerable anxiety to his platoon.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus028.jpg" width="500" height="351" alt=""—— —— these —— —— rations."" title=""—— —— these —— —— rations."" /> +<span class="caption">"—— —— these —— —— rations."</span> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus029.jpg" width="500" height="320" alt="Dear ——" title="Dear ——" /> +<span class="caption">Dear ——</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"At present we are staying at a farm. . ."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;"> +<img src="images/illus030.jpg" width="358" height="500" alt="The Eternal Question." title="The Eternal Question." /> +<span class="caption">The Eternal Question.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"When the 'ell is it goin' to be strawberry?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 346px;"> +<img src="images/illus031.jpg" width="346" height="500" alt="Directing the Way at the Front." title="Directing the Way at the Front." /> +<span class="caption">Directing the Way at the Front.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Yer knows the dead 'orse 'cross the road? Well, keep straight on till yer +comes to a p'rambulator 'longside a Johnson 'ole."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;"> +<img src="images/illus032.jpg" width="366" height="500" alt="The Late Comer." title="The Late Comer." /> +<span class="caption">The Late Comer.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Where 'ave you been? 'Avin' your +bloomin' fortune told?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;"> +<img src="images/illus033.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt="The Innocent Abroad." title="The Innocent Abroad." /> +<span class="caption">The Innocent Abroad.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Out since Mons: "Well, what sort of a night 'ave yer 'ad?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Novice (but persistent optimist): "Oh, alright. 'Ad to get out and rest +a bit now and again."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 352px;"> +<img src="images/illus034.jpg" width="352" height="500" alt=""There goes our blinkin' parapet again."" title=""There goes our blinkin' parapet again."" /> +<span class="caption">"There goes our blinkin' parapet again."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> +<img src="images/illus035.jpg" width="345" height="500" alt=""The Push"—in Three Chapters." title=""The Push"—in Three Chapters." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus035-big.jpg">"The Push"—in Three Chapters.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>By one who's been "Pushed."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;"> +<img src="images/illus036.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt=""The Spirit of our Troops is Excellent."" title=""The Spirit of our Troops is Excellent."" /> +<span class="caption">"The Spirit of our Troops is Excellent."</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 365px;"> +<img src="images/illus037.jpg" width="365" height="500" alt="The Things that Matter." title="The Things that Matter." /> +<span class="caption">The Things that Matter.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Scene: Loos, during the September offensive.</div> + +<div class='hang1'>Colonel Fitz-Shrapnel receives the following message from "G. H. Q.":—<br />"Please +let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of raspberry +jam issued to you last Friday."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 320px;"> +<img src="images/illus038.jpg" width="320" height="500" alt="The Soldier's Dream." title="The Soldier's Dream." /> +<span class="caption">The Soldier's Dream.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>A "Bitter" disappointment on waking.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;"> +<img src="images/illus039.jpg" width="370" height="500" alt="The Thirst for Reprisals." title="The Thirst for Reprisals." /> +<span class="caption">The Thirst for Reprisals.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"'And me a rifle, someone. I'll give these ——s 'ell for this!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus040.jpg" width="500" height="306" alt="The Ideal and the Real." title="The Ideal and the Real." /> +<span class="caption">The Ideal and the Real.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>What we should like to see at our billets—and +(inset) what we do see.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus041.jpg" width="500" height="297" alt=""Watch me make a fire-bucket of 'is 'elmet."" title=""Watch me make a fire-bucket of 'is 'elmet."" /> +<span class="caption">"Watch me make a fire-bucket of 'is 'elmet."</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;"> +<img src="images/illus042.jpg" width="367" height="500" alt=""That 16-inch Sensation."" title=""That 16-inch Sensation."" /> +<span class="caption">"That 16-inch Sensation."</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus043a.jpg" width="500" height="367" alt="That Sword." title="That Sword." /> +<span class="caption">That Sword.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>How he thought he was going to use it——</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus043b.jpg" width="500" height="367" alt="——and how he did use it." title="——and how he did use it." /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span></p> +<div class='center'>——and how he did use it.</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/illus045.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="What It Really Feels Like." title="What It Really Feels Like." /> +<span class="caption">What It Really Feels Like.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>To be on patrol duty at night-time.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;"> +<img src="images/illus046.jpg" width="358" height="500" alt=""The same old moon."" title=""The same old moon."" /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus046-big.jpg">"The same old moon."</a></span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;"> +<img src="images/illus047.jpg" width="351" height="500" alt=""My dream for years to come."" title=""My dream for years to come."" /> +<span class="caption">"My dream for years to come."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 364px;"> +<img src="images/illus048.jpg" width="364" height="500" alt="Coiffure in the Trenches." title="Coiffure in the Trenches." /> +<span class="caption">Coiffure in the Trenches.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Keep yer 'ead still, or I'll 'ave yer blinkin' ear off."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/illus049.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="Another Maxim Maxim." title="Another Maxim Maxim." /> +<span class="caption">Another Maxim Maxim.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Machine guns form a valuable support for infantry."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;"> +<img src="images/illus050.jpg" width="372" height="500" alt="Our Democratic Army." title="Our Democratic Army." /> +<span class="caption">Our Democratic Army.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Member of Navvies' Battalion (to Colonel): "I say, yer mate's dropped +'is cane."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 341px;"> +<img src="images/illus051.jpg" width="341" height="500" alt="Five days leave! Taxi!" title="Five days leave! Taxi!" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 362px;"> +<img src="images/illus052.jpg" width="362" height="500" alt="Never Again!" title="Never Again!" /> +<span class="caption">Never Again!</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"In future I snipe from the ground."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;"> +<img src="images/illus053.jpg" width="367" height="500" alt="Thoroughness." title="Thoroughness." /> +<span class="caption">Thoroughness.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"What time shall I call you in the morning, sir?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>(Colonel Chutney, V.C., home on short leave, decides to keep in touch with +dug-out life.)</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 371px;"> +<img src="images/illus054.jpg" width="371" height="500" alt="That Hat." title="That Hat." /> +<span class="caption">That Hat.</span> +</div> + +<div><span style="margin-left: 10em;">"Pop out and get it, Bert."</span></div> + +<div><span style="margin-left: 10em;">"Pop out yerself."</span></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 254px;"> +<img src="images/illus055.jpg" width="254" height="500" alt="Springtime in Flanders." title="Springtime in Flanders." /> +<span class="caption">Springtime in Flanders.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Personally, I think this is just what you want +for laying your eggs in, but, as Bairnsfather says, +'If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it.'"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 373px;"> +<img src="images/illus056.jpg" width="373" height="500" alt="The Dud Shell—Or the Fuse-Top Collector." title="The Dud Shell—Or the Fuse-Top Collector." /> +<span class="caption">The Dud Shell—Or the Fuse-Top Collector.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Give it a good 'ard 'un, Bert; you can generally 'ear 'em fizzing a bit first +if they are a-goin' to explode."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 438px;"> +<img src="images/illus057.jpg" width="438" height="500" alt=""What's all this about unmarried men?"" title=""What's all this about unmarried men?"" /> +<span class="caption">"What's all this about unmarried men?"</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 361px;"> +<img src="images/illus058.jpg" width="361" height="500" alt="The Historical Touch." title="The Historical Touch." /> +<span class="caption">The Historical Touch.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Well, Alfred, 'ow are the cakes?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus059.jpg" width="500" height="331" alt="His Initiation." title="His Initiation." /> +<span class="caption">His Initiation.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>No. 99988 Private Blobs (on sentry-go) feels that he has at last stumbled across the true explanation of that +somewhat cryptic expression, "There'll be dirty work at the cross-roads to-night!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 352px;"> +<img src="images/illus060.jpg" width="352" height="500" alt="When One Would Like to Start an Offensive on One's Own." title="When One Would Like to Start an Offensive on One's Own." /> +<span class="caption">When One Would Like to Start an Offensive on One's Own.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">Recipe for Feeling Like This</span>—Bully, biscuits, no coke, and leave just +cancelled.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 340px;"> +<img src="images/illus061.jpg" width="340" height="500" alt="Trouble With One of the Souvenirs." title="Trouble With One of the Souvenirs." /> +<span class="caption">Trouble With One of the Souvenirs.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"'Old these a minute while I takes that blinkin' smile off 'is dial."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/illus062.jpg" width="369" height="500" alt="The Conscientious Exhilarator." title="The Conscientious Exhilarator." /> +<span class="caption">The Conscientious Exhilarator.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"<i>Every encouragement should be given for singing and whistling.</i>"—(Extract +from a "Military Manual.")</div> + +<div class='center'>That painstaking fellow, Lieut. Orpheus, does his best, but finds it uphill +work at times.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 394px;"> +<img src="images/illus063.jpg" width="394" height="500" alt="The Nest." title="The Nest." /> +<span class="caption">The Nest.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"'Ere, when you're finished, I'll borrow that there top note of yours to clean +the knives with."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus064.jpg" width="500" height="341" alt="Those Superstitions." title="Those Superstitions." /> +<span class="caption">Those Superstitions.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Private Sandy McNab cheers the assembly by pointing out (with the aid of his pocket almanac) that it is +Friday the 13th and that their number is one too many.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 354px;"> +<img src="images/illus065.jpg" width="354" height="500" alt="The Professional Touch." title="The Professional Touch." /> +<span class="caption">The Professional Touch.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Chuck us out that bag o' bombs, mate; it's under your 'ead."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;"> +<img src="images/illus066.jpg" width="359" height="500" alt="Happy Memories of the Zoo." title="Happy Memories of the Zoo." /> +<span class="caption">Happy Memories of the Zoo.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>What Time do they Feed the Sea-Lions, Alf?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;"> +<img src="images/illus067.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="Observation." title="Observation." /> +<span class="caption">Observation.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"'Ave a squint through these 'ere, Bill; you can see one of the ——'s +eatin' a sausage as clear as anythin'."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;"> +<img src="images/illus068.jpg" width="370" height="500" alt="Immediate and Important!" title="Immediate and Important!" /> +<span class="caption">Immediate and Important!</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Never has Private Smith's face felt so large and smooth as when he hands +his Captain the following message at what he feels is an unsuitable moment: +"The G.O.C. notices with regret the tendency of all ranks to shave the upper +lip. This practice must cease forthwith."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus069.jpg" width="400" height="568" alt="Other Times, Other Manners." title="Other Times, Other Manners." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus069-big.jpg">Other Times, Other Manners.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>The Decline of Poetry and Romance in War.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;"> +<img src="images/illus070.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="His Dual Obsession." title="His Dual Obsession." /> +<span class="caption">His Dual Obsession.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Owing to the frequent recurrence of this dream, Herr Fritz von Lagershifter +has decided to take his friends' advice: Give up sausage late at night and +brood less upon the possible size of the British Army next spring.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;"> +<img src="images/illus071.jpg" width="359" height="500" alt="The Communication Trench." title="The Communication Trench." /> +<span class="caption">The Communication Trench.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">Problem</span>—Whether to walk along the top and risk it, or do another mile +of this.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;"> +<img src="images/illus072.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="Letting Himself Down." title="Letting Himself Down." /> +<span class="caption">Letting Himself Down.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Having omitted to remove the elastic band prior to descent, Herr Franz von +Flopp feels that the trial exhibition of his new parachute is a failure.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus073.jpg" width="500" height="344" alt="Old Saws and New Meanings——By Bairnsfather." title="Old Saws and New Meanings——By Bairnsfather." /> +<span class="caption">Old Saws and New Meanings——By Bairnsfather.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>There is certainly a lot of truth in that Napoleonic maxim, "An army moves on its stomach."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 405px;"> +<img src="images/illus074.jpg" width="405" height="500" alt="Nobbled." title="Nobbled." /> +<span class="caption">Nobbled.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"'Ow long are you up for, Bill?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Seven years."</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Yer lucky ——, I'm duration."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 352px;"> +<img src="images/illus075.jpg" width="352" height="500" alt="The Intelligence Department." title="The Intelligence Department." /> +<span class="caption">The Intelligence Department.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Is this 'ere the Warwicks?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Nao. 'Indenburg's blinkin' Light Infantry."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 385px;"> +<img src="images/illus076.jpg" width="385" height="500" alt="Valuable Fragment from Flanders: It All Comes to This in Time." title="Valuable Fragment from Flanders: It All Comes to This in Time." /> +<span class="caption">Valuable Fragment from Flanders: It All Comes to This in Time.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"This interesting fragment, found near Ypres (known to the ancients as +Wipers), throws a light on a subject which has long puzzled science, i.e., +what was the origin and meaning of those immense zigzag slots in the ground +stretching from Ostend to Belfort? There is no doubt that there was some +inter-tribal war on at this period."—<i>Extract from</i> "<i>The Bystander</i>," <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 4916.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;"> +<img src="images/illus077.jpg" width="372" height="500" alt="In Nineteen Something: General Sir Ian Jelloid at Home." title="In Nineteen Something: General Sir Ian Jelloid at Home." /> +<span class="caption">In Nineteen Something: General Sir Ian Jelloid at Home.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Having picked up this cherished possession for a mere song at a sale near +Verdun, the General has now let his country seat, "Shrapnel Park," and +says he finds the new abode infinitely cheaper, and not a bit draughty, if you +keep the breech closed.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus078.jpg" width="500" height="339" alt="In and Out (I)." title="In and Out (I)." /> +<span class="caption">In and Out (I).</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>That last half-hour before "going in" to the same trenches for the 200th time.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus079.jpg" width="500" height="337" alt="In and Out (II)." title="In and Out (II)." /> +<span class="caption">In and Out (II).</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>That first half-hour after "coming out" of those same trenches.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 354px;"> +<img src="images/illus080.jpg" width="354" height="500" alt="Pushfulness at Plug Street." title="Pushfulness at Plug Street." /> +<span class="caption">Pushfulness at Plug Street.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Colonel Ian Jelloid, of the Blobshire Rifles, being an energetic and businesslike +man, believes in advertising as an antidote to stagnant warfare.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;"> +<img src="images/illus081.jpg" width="370" height="500" alt="His Secret Sorrow." title="His Secret Sorrow." /> +<span class="caption">His Secret Sorrow.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"I reckon this bloke must 'ave caught 'is face against some of them forts +at Verdun!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 349px;"> +<img src="images/illus082.jpg" width="349" height="500" alt="The Hard Lines of Communication." title="The Hard Lines of Communication." /> +<span class="caption">The Hard Lines of Communication.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;"> +<img src="images/illus083.jpg" width="351" height="500" alt="The New Submarine Danger." title="The New Submarine Danger." /> +<span class="caption">The New Submarine Danger.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"They'll be torpedoin' us if we stick 'ere much longer, Bill."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 349px;"> +<img src="images/illus084.jpg" width="349" height="500" alt="War!" title="War!" /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus084-big.jpg">War</a>!</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>—As it is for most of us.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;"> +<img src="images/illus085.jpg" width="372" height="500" alt="A Matter of Moment." title="A Matter of Moment." /> +<span class="caption">A Matter of Moment.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"What was that, Bill?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Trench mortar."</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Ours or theirs?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> +<img src="images/illus083b.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt="The Saint." title="The Saint." /> +<span class="caption">The Saint.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>That indiscriminating orb, the moon, gives Private Scattergood a saintly +appearance, sadly out of keeping with his thoughts. He's filling 100 +sandbags at 11 p.m.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 371px;"> +<img src="images/illus087.jpg" width="371" height="500" alt="Those Tubular Trenches." title="Those Tubular Trenches." /> +<span class="caption">Those Tubular Trenches.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Is this right for 'eadquarters?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Yes, change at Oxford Circus."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 485px;"> +<img src="images/illus088.jpg" width="452" height="600" alt=""We Look Before——And After."" title=""We Look Before——And After."" /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus088-big.jpg">"We Look Before——And After."</a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> +<img src="images/illus089.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt="Con Moto Perpetuo." title="Con Moto Perpetuo." /> +<span class="caption">Con Moto Perpetuo.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"<span class="smcap">Our Bert</span>" (going on leave—having asked a question, and having listened +to three minutes' unintelligible eloquence): "And 'ow does the chorus go?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 368px;"> +<img src="images/illus090.jpg" width="368" height="500" alt="Real Sympathy." title="Real Sympathy." /> +<span class="caption">Real Sympathy.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"I wish you'd get something for that —— cough of yours. That's the second +time you've blown the blinkin' candle out!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> +<img src="images/illus091.jpg" width="383" height="500" alt="Entanglements." title="Entanglements." /> +<span class="caption">Entanglements.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Come on, Bert, it's safer in the trenches."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 394px;"> +<img src="images/illus092.jpg" width="394" height="500" alt=""LEAVE."" title=""LEAVE."" /> +<span class="caption">"LEAVE."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 364px;"> +<img src="images/illus092b.jpg" width="364" height="500" alt="There are times when Private Lightfoot feels absolutely convinced that it's going to be a War of Exhaustion." title="There are times when Private Lightfoot feels absolutely convinced that it's going to be a War of Exhaustion." /> +<span class="caption">There are times when Private Lightfoot feels absolutely convinced that it's going to be a War of Exhaustion.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;"> +<img src="images/illus092c.jpg" width="370" height="500" alt="Chat on 'Change." title="Chat on 'Change." /> +<span class="caption">Chat on 'Change.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"You owes me two francs and I owes you one that's got into the lining +of me coat; that makes it right, don't it?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus093.jpg" width="500" height="671" alt="How Dick Manvers" title="How Dick Manvers" /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus093-big.jpg">How Dick Manvers</a></span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus098.jpg" width="500" height="663" alt="Got His Star." title="Got His Star." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus098-big.jpg">Got His Star.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='blockquot'>Every familiar feature of the Film is happily caricatured by Captain Bairnsfather +in his amusing page of pictures. The hero, the heroine (with smile), the +villain, the heavy father, all of the most approved pattern—everything down to +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span>the meticulous inaccuracy characteristic of the American film in matters of +detail, is shown with the good-natured sarcasm befitting a master of satire as +well as of humour, while the story tells itself with breathless enthusiasm.</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus094.jpg" width="500" height="309" alt="The Whip Hand." title="The Whip Hand." /> +<span class="caption">The Whip Hand.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Private Mulligatawny (the Australian Stock-whip wonder) frequently causes a lot of bother in the enemy's trenches.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus095.jpg" width="500" height="311" alt="Christmas Day: How it dawned for many." title="Christmas Day: How it dawned for many." /> +<span class="caption">Christmas Day: How it dawned for many.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;"> +<img src="images/illus096.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt=""Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands."" title=""Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands."" /> +<span class="caption">"Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 329px;"> +<img src="images/illus097.jpg" width="329" height="500" alt="Augusts Three." title="Augusts Three." /> +<span class="caption">Augusts Three.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>To each year its type.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;"> +<img src="images/illus101.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="Overheard in an Orchard." title="Overheard in an Orchard." /> +<span class="caption">Overheard in an Orchard.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Said the Apple to the Plum: "Well, anyway, old man, they can never ask us +what we did in the great war!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/illus102.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Tips for Tommies." title="Tips for Tommies." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus102-big.jpg">Tips for Tommies.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Now that the war has become a world business, we must at any moment +expect the appearance of this sort of thing in our papers.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus103.jpg" width="500" height="669" alt="The Offensive." title="The Offensive." /> +<span class="caption">The Offensive.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>What it looks like—and what it feels like.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 371px;"> +<img src="images/illus104.jpg" width="371" height="500" alt=""The Imminent, Deadly Breach."" title=""The Imminent, Deadly Breach."" /> +<span class="caption">"The Imminent, Deadly Breach."</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Mind you don't fall through the seat of yer trousers, 'Arry!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;"> +<img src="images/illus105.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="Telepathy." title="Telepathy." /> +<span class="caption">Telepathy.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Two minds with but a single thought."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus106.jpg" width="500" height="343" alt="Trouville-sur-Somme." title="Trouville-sur-Somme." /> +<span class="caption">Trouville-sur-Somme.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Tell 'er to 'op it, Bert. I'm sittin' on a bit o' shell or somethin'."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 361px;"> +<img src="images/illus107.jpg" width="361" height="500" alt="Omar the Optimist." title="Omar the Optimist." /> +<span class="caption">Omar the Optimist.</span> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +"Here with a loaf of bread beneath the row,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: .5em;">A muttered curse, but ne'er a whine, and thou—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: .5em;">Beside me, singing in the wilderness,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: .5em;">The wilderness is Paradise enow."</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span><br /><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;"> +<img src="images/illus108.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt=""Where do yer want this put, Sargint?"" title=""Where do yer want this put, Sargint?"" /> +<span class="caption">"Where do yer want this put, Sargint?"</span> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;"> +<img src="images/illus109.jpg" width="359" height="500" alt="Coming to the Point." title="Coming to the Point." /> +<span class="caption">Coming to the Point.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Let's 'ave this pin of yours a minute. I'll soon 'ave these winkles out of 'ere."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 377px;"> +<img src="images/illus110.jpg" width="377" height="500" alt="A Castle in the Air." title="A Castle in the Air." /> +<span class="caption">A Castle in the Air.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"A few more, Bert, and that there château won't be worth livin' in."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/illus111.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="The Freedom of the Seas." title="The Freedom of the Seas." /> +<span class="caption">The Freedom of the Seas.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"I wish they'd 'old this war in England—don't you, Bill?" (No answer.)</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 378px;"> +<img src="images/illus112.jpg" width="378" height="500" alt="In Dixie-Land." title="In Dixie-Land." /> +<span class="caption">In Dixie-Land.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Well, Friday—'ow's Crusoe?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> +<img src="images/illus113.jpg" width="383" height="500" alt="Alas! Poor Herr Von Yorick!" title="Alas! Poor Herr Von Yorick!" /> +<span class="caption">Alas! Poor Herr Von Yorick!</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Fricourt—July, 1916.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 364px;"> +<img src="images/illus114.jpg" width="364" height="500" alt="Those Signals." title="Those Signals." /> +<span class="caption">Those Signals.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang2'>THE VIGILANT ONE: "I say, old chap, what does two green lights and +one red one mean?"</div> + +<div class='hang2'>RECUMBENT GLADIATOR (just back from leave): "Two crêmes de +menthe and a cherry brandy!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 376px;"> +<img src="images/illus115.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="His Christmas Goose." title="His Christmas Goose." /> +<span class="caption">His Christmas Goose.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"You wait till I comes off dooty!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;"> +<img src="images/illus116.jpg" width="372" height="500" alt="Urgent." title="Urgent." /> +<span class="caption">Urgent.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Quick, afore this comes down!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 374px;"> +<img src="images/illus117.jpg" width="374" height="500" alt="My Hat!" title="My Hat!" /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus117-big.jpg">My Hat!</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Helmets, Shrapnel, One.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 370px;"> +<img src="images/illus118.jpg" width="370" height="500" alt="The Candid Friend." title="The Candid Friend." /> +<span class="caption">The Candid Friend.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Well, yer know, I like the photo of you in your gas mask best."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;"> +<img src="images/illus119.jpg" width="351" height="500" alt="The Long and the Short of It." title="The Long and the Short of It." /> +<span class="caption">The Long and the Short of It.</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang2'><span class="smcap">Up Last Draft</span>: "I suppose you 'as to be careful 'ow you looks over the +parapet about 'ere."</div> + +<div class='hang2'><span class="smcap">Out since Mons</span>: "You needn't worry, me lad; the rats are going to be +your only trouble."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;"> +<img src="images/illus120.jpg" width="366" height="500" alt=""Old Moore" at the Front." title=""Old Moore" at the Front." /> +<span class="caption">"Old Moore" at the Front.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"As far as I can make out from this 'ere prophecy-book, Bill, the seventh +year is going to be the worst, and after that every fourteenth!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 376px;"> +<img src="images/illus121.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="Supra-Normal." title="Supra-Normal." /> +<span class="caption">Supra-Normal.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Captain Mills-Bomme's temperature cracks the thermometer on seeing his +recent daring exploits described as "On our right there is nothing to report."</div> + +<div class='center'>(<i>He and his battalion had merely occupied three lines of German trenches, and +held them through a storm of heavy Lyddite for forty-eight hours.</i>)</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;"> +<img src="images/illus122.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt="Tactical Developments." title="Tactical Developments." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus122-big.jpg">Tactical Developments.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Private 9998 Blobs has always thought a machine for imitating the sound of +ration parties (and thus drawing fire) an excellent idea, but simply hates his +evening for working it.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 352px;"> +<img src="images/illus123.jpg" width="352" height="500" alt="That "Out Wiring" Sensation." title="That "Out Wiring" Sensation." /> +<span class="caption">That "Out Wiring" Sensation.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 365px;"> +<img src="images/illus124.jpg" width="365" height="500" alt="Natural History of the War" title="Natural History of the War" /> +<span class="caption">Natural History of the War</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>The Flanders Sea Lion (Leo Maritimus).</div> + +<div class='center'>"An almost extinct amphibian, first discovered in Flanders during the Winter +of 1914-15. Feeds almost exclusively on Plum and Apple Jam and +Rum. Only savage when the latter is knocked off."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 359px;"> +<img src="images/illus125.jpg" width="359" height="500" alt="Things that Irritate." title="Things that Irritate." /> +<span class="caption">Things that Irritate.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Private Wm. Jones is not half so annoyed at accidentally falling down the +mine crater as he is at hearing two friends murmuring the first verse of +"Don't go down the mine, Daddy."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 355px;"> +<img src="images/illus126.jpg" width="355" height="500" alt="Still Keeping His Hand In." title="Still Keeping His Hand In." /> +<span class="caption">Still Keeping His Hand In.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Private Smith (late Shinio, the popular juggler) appreciably lowers the protective +value of his section's shrapnel helmets by practising his celebrated +plate and basin spinning act.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 356px;"> +<img src="images/illus127.jpg" width="356" height="500" alt="Those —— Mouth-Organs." title="Those —— Mouth-Organs." /> +<span class="caption">Those —— Mouth-Organs.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Keep away from the 'ive, Bert; 'e's goin' to sting yer!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 373px;"> +<img src="images/illus128.jpg" width="373" height="500" alt="That Provost-Marshal Feeling." title="That Provost-Marshal Feeling." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus128-big.jpg">That Provost-Marshal Feeling.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>A sensation only to be had at a Base—in other words, a base sensation.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 422px;"> +<img src="images/illus129.jpg" width="422" height="500" alt="Blighty!" title="Blighty!" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus130.jpg" width="500" height="337" alt="Those Raiders at the Seat of War." title="Those Raiders at the Seat of War." /> +<span class="caption">Those Raiders at the Seat of War.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"I wish the 'ell you'd put a cork on that blinkin' pin of yours, Bert!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> +<img src="images/illus131.jpg" width="344" height="500" alt="Romance, 1917." title="Romance, 1917." /> +<span class="caption">Romance, 1917.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (engaged).</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 389px;"> +<img src="images/illus132.jpg" width="389" height="500" alt="Modern Topography." title="Modern Topography." /> +<span class="caption">Modern Topography.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Well, you see, here's the church and there's the post-office."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 342px;"> +<img src="images/illus133.jpg" width="342" height="500" alt=""There Was a Young Man of Cologne."" title=""There Was a Young Man of Cologne."" /> +<span class="caption">"There Was a Young Man of Cologne."</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>(I've forgotten the rest of the poem, but it's something about "a bomb" and +"If only he'd known.")</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 352px;"> +<img src="images/illus134.jpg" width="352" height="500" alt="In the Support Trench." title="In the Support Trench." /> +<span class="caption">In the Support Trench.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Old Bill has practically decided to get Private Shinio (the ex-comedy-juggler +and hand-balancer) transferred to another platoon.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 366px;"> +<img src="images/illus135.jpg" width="366" height="500" alt="It's the Little Things that Worry." title="It's the Little Things that Worry." /> +<span class="caption">It's the Little Things that Worry.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>What is so particularly annoying to Private Lovebird is, that he would not +have had this bother with his dug-out if his leave had not been postponed.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 358px;"> +<img src="images/illus136.jpg" width="358" height="500" alt="That Periscope Sensation." title="That Periscope Sensation." /> +<span class="caption">That Periscope Sensation.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"I wonder if I oughtn't to tell the captain about that thing sticking up in the +sea over there."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus137.jpg" width="500" height="330" alt="At the Brewery Baths." title="At the Brewery Baths." /> +<span class="caption">At the Brewery Baths.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"You chuck another sardine at me, my lad, and you'll hear from my solicitors."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;"> +<img src="images/illus138.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt="A Miner Success." title="A Miner Success." /> +<span class="caption">A Miner Success.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"They must 'ave 'ad some good news or somethin', Alf; you can 'ear 'em +cheerin' quite plain."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 352px;"> +<img src="images/illus139.jpg" width="352" height="500" alt="Birds of Ill Omen." title="Birds of Ill Omen." /> +<span class="caption">Birds of Ill Omen.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"There's evidently goin' to be an offensive around 'ere, Bert."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 363px;"> +<img src="images/illus140.jpg" width="363" height="500" alt="If Only They'd Make "Old Bill" President of Those Tribunals." title="If Only They'd Make "Old Bill" President of Those Tribunals." /> +<span class="caption">If Only They'd Make "Old Bill" President of Those Tribunals.</span> +</div> + +<div class='poem'>"Well, what's your job, me lad?"<br /> + +"Making spots for rocking-horses, sir."<br /> + +"Three months."<br /> + +"Exemption, sir?"<br /> + +"Nao, exemption be ——d! Three months' hard!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 353px;"> +<img src="images/illus141.jpg" width="353" height="500" alt="The Stargazers." title="The Stargazers." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus141-big.jpg">The Stargazers.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>—and their return to earth.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 348px;"> +<img src="images/illus142.jpg" width="348" height="500" alt="Down at the Ration Dump." title="Down at the Ration Dump." /> +<span class="caption">Down at the Ration Dump.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"Call me a Tank again, my lad, and I'll knock yer —— 'ead off!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/illus143.jpg" width="369" height="500" alt="The Glorious Fifth." title="The Glorious Fifth." /> +<span class="caption">The Glorious Fifth.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"'Ere, Guy Fawkes—buzz off!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/illus144.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="Cox's." title="Cox's." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus144-big.jpg">Cox's.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>When one feels rather in favour of floating a War Loan of one's own.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus145.jpg" width="500" height="346" alt="This Muddy War." title="This Muddy War." /> +<span class="caption">This Muddy War.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"These 'ere staff cars do splash a lot, don't they, Bill?" (No answer.)</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[143]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 369px;"> +<img src="images/illus146.jpg" width="369" height="500" alt="Unappetising." title="Unappetising." /> +<span class="caption">Unappetising.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Moments when the Savoy, the Alhambra, and the Piccadilly Grill seem very +far away (the offensive starts in half an hour).</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[144]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;"> +<img src="images/illus147.jpg" width="351" height="500" alt="That "Leave" Train." title="That "Leave" Train." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus147-big.jpg">That "Leave" Train.</a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/illus148.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt="Other Times——Other Manners." title="Other Times——Other Manners." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus148-big.jpg">Other Times——Other Manners.</a></span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;"> +<img src="images/illus149.jpg" width="367" height="500" alt="The Tourists, 19..?" title="The Tourists, 19..?" /> +<span class="caption">The Tourists, 19..?</span> +</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Remember this place, Bert?"</div> + +<div class='hang1'>"Yes, it's where we used to chuck the fish to you, ain't it, Bill?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 381px;"> +<img src="images/illus150.jpg" width="381" height="500" alt="Alas! My poor Brother!" title="Alas! My poor Brother!" /> +<span class="caption">Alas! My poor Brother!</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>(<i>In this cartoon Captain Bairnsfather refers to the report that the corpses of +German soldiers fallen in battle were utilised in a Corpse-Conversion Factory for +the purpose of providing fats for the Fatherland.</i>)</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus151.jpg" width="500" height="347" alt="Can-Tank-erous." title="Can-Tank-erous." /> +<span class="caption">Can-Tank-erous.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"'Ere! Where the 'ell are ye comin' with that Turkish bath o' yours?"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 357px;"> +<img src="images/illus152.jpg" width="357" height="500" alt="Curfew." title="Curfew." /> +<span class="caption">Curfew.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>What particularly annoys Lieutenant Jones, R.F.A. (who thought he could +get a better view from the belfry), is that irritating prediction which keeps +passing through his head, "The curfew shall not ring to-night."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[150]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 371px;"> +<img src="images/illus153.jpg" width="371" height="500" alt="On the "Leave" Train." title="On the "Leave" Train." /> +<span class="caption"><a href="images/illus153-big.jpg">On the "Leave" Train.</a></span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>You will never quite realise how closely we are bound to our French Ally +until you have had the good fortune to travel on one of those "leave" trains—six +a side, windows shut, fifty miles to go, and eighteen hours to do it!</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus154.jpg" width="500" height="338" alt="Getting the Local Colour." title="Getting the Local Colour." /> +<span class="caption">Getting the Local Colour.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>In that rare and elusive period known as "Leave" it is necessary to reconstruct the "Atmosphere" of the front +as far as possible in order to produce the weekly "Fragment."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[152]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus155.jpg" width="500" height="341" alt="The Ghost of Dead Pig Farm—19..?" title="The Ghost of Dead Pig Farm—19..?" /> +<span class="caption">The Ghost of Dead Pig Farm—19..?</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>At midnight, an indignant, husky voice is heard to say: "B—— these blinkin' sandbags."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> +<img src="images/illus156.jpg" width="344" height="500" alt="George versus Germany." title="George versus Germany." /> +<span class="caption">George versus Germany.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Should Mr. Robey be at any time called upon to go to the Front, he must be +careful how he does this: "I'm surprised at you, Ludendorff!"</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 343px;"> +<img src="images/illus157.jpg" width="343" height="500" alt="A Puzzle for Paderewski." title="A Puzzle for Paderewski." /> +<span class="caption">A Puzzle for Paderewski.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"It's a pity Alf ain't 'ere, Bert; 'e can play the piana wonderful."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 408px;"> +<img src="images/illus158.jpg" width="408" height="500" alt=""Substitutes" in the Field." title=""Substitutes" in the Field." /> +<span class="caption">"Substitutes" in the Field.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>"I thought you said your uncle was a sending you an umbrella."</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 375px;"> +<img src="images/illus159.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Leave." title="Leave." /> +<span class="caption">Leave.</span> +</div> + +<div class='center'>Dep.: Paddington 2.15. Arr. Home 4.</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[157]</a></span></p> + +<div class='bbox2'> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/illus160.jpg" width="350" height="204" alt="ROLLS-DAIMLER, 1917." title="ROLLS-DAIMLER, 1917." /> +</div><div class='blockquot2'><b>ROLLS-DAIMLER, 1917</b>.—Four-seated Coupé body (très coupé). Hardly been +used, beautifully finished (almost completely). One dickey seat (<i>very</i> dickey), +detachable rims (two already detached). Only driven 10 miles (Albert to +Gommecourt). Excellent shock absorber (has absorbed any amount). In exceptional +condition. £650 (or good bath chair). BARGAIN.—Captain Somepush, +No. 2, Red Cross, Rouen.</div> +</div> + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/illus160b.jpg" width="250" height="125" alt="Merely a Warning." title="Merely a Warning." /> +<span class="caption">Merely a Warning.</span> +</div> + + + +<div class='center'>To those who may be contemplating picking up a Government car cheaply +after the war. Insist on seeing photograph. Don't be satisfied by just +reading the advertisements.</div> + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> + +<p>With the three noted exceptions, punctuation anomalies were retained to +match the original drawings. The exceptions are in the books printed +explanations, not in any cartoon.</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_5">5</a>, period added to illustration caption ("Jack Johnson" shell.)</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_112">112</a>, single opening quote changed to double. ("You wait till I)</p> + +<p>Page <a href="#Page_125">125</a>, period added to title of picture to match rest of format (That +Provost-Marshal Feeling.)</p> + +<p>Pages <a href="#Page_92">92 and 97</a> were halves of the same comic. 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Bairnsfather + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Fragments From France + +Author: Captain Bruce Bairnsfather + +Release Date: July 2, 2008 [EBook #25951] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +_By Bruce Bairnsfather_ + +Bullets and Billets + +Fragments from France + +A Few Fragments from His Life + + + + +FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE + + +BY + +CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER + +AUTHOR OF "BULLETS AND BILLETS" + + +[Illustration] + + + G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS + NEW YORK AND LONDON + The Knickerbocker Press + 1917 + + + + +FOREWORD + +_By the Editor of "The Bystander."_ + + +[Illustration: W]HEN Tommy went out to the great war, he went smiling, +and singing the latest ditty of the halls. The enemy scowled. War, said +his professors of kultur and his hymnsters of hate, could never be waged +in the Tipperary spirit, and the nation that sent to the front soldiers +who sang and laughed must be the very decadent England they had all +along denounced as unworthy of world-power. + +I fear the enemy will be even more infuriated when he turns over the +pages of this book. In it the spirit of the British citizen soldier, +who, hating war as he hated hell, flocked to the colours to have his +whack at the apostles of blood and iron, is translated to cold and +permanent print. Here is the great war reduced to grim and gruesome +absurdity. It is not fun poked by a mere looker-on, it is the fun felt +in the war by one who has been through it. + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER.] + +Captain Bruce Bairnsfather has stayed at that "farm" which is portrayed +in the double page of the book; he has endured that shell-swept "'ole" +that is depicted on the cover; he has watched the disappearance of that +"blinkin' parapet" shown on one page; has had his hair cut under fire as +shown on another. And having been through it all, he has just put down +what he has seen and heard and felt and smelt and--laughed at. + +Captain Bairnsfather went to the front in no mood of a "chiel takin' +notes." It was the notes that took him. Before the war, some time a +regular soldier, some time an engineer, he had little other idea than to +sketch for mischief, on walls and shirt cuffs, and tablecloths. Without +the war he might never have put pencil to paper for publication. But the +war insisted. + +It is not for his mere editor to forecast his vogue in posterity. +Naturally I hope it will be a lasting one, but I am prejudiced. Let me, +however, quote a letter which reached Captain Bairnsfather from +somewhere in France: + + "Twenty years after peace has been declared there + will be no more potent stimulus to the + recollections of an old soldier than your + admirable sketches of trench life. May I, with all + deference, congratulate you on your humour, your + fidelity, your something-else not easily + defined--I mean your power of expressing in black + and white a condition of mind." + +I hope that this forecast is a true one. If this sketch book is worthy +to outlast the days of the war, and to be kept for remembrance on the +shelves of those who have lived through it, it will have done its bit. +For will it not be a standing reminder of the _ingloriousness_ of war, +its preposterous absurdity, and of its futility as a means of settling +the affairs of nations? + +When the ardent Jingo of the day after to-morrow rattles the sabre, let +there be somewhere handy a copy of "Fragments from France" that can be +opened in front of him, at any page, just to remind him of what war is +really like as it is fought in "civilised" times. + +Captain Bairnsfather has become a household word--or perhaps one should +say a trench-hold word. Who is ever the worse for a laugh? Certainly not +the soldier in trench or dug-out or shell-swept billet. Rather may it be +said that the Bairnsfather laughter has acted in thousands of cases as +an antidote to the bane of depression. It is the good fortune of the +British Army to possess such an antidote, and the ill-fortune of the +other belligerents that they do not possess its equivalent. + +[Illustration: CAPTAIN BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER + +This picture was taken at the Front, less than a quarter of a mile from +the German trenches. Captain Bairnsfather has come "straight off the +mud," and is wearing a fur coat, a Balaclava helmet, and gum boots. +Immediately behind him is a hole made by a "Jack Johnson" shell.] + +A Scots officer, writing in the _Edinburgh Evening News_, hits the true +sentiment towards Bairnsfather of the Army in France when he writes: + + "To us out here the 'Fragments' are the very + quintessence of life. We sit moping over a smoky + charcoal fire in a dug-out. Suddenly someone, more + wide-awake than others remembers the 'Fragments.' + Out it comes, and we laugh uproariously over each + picture. For are these not the very things we are + witnessing every day, incidents full of tragic + humour? The fed-up spirit you see on the faces of + Bairnsfather's pictures is a sham--a mask beneath + which there lies something that is essentially + British." + +[Illustration] + +In a communication received by Captain Bairnsfather an eminent Member of +Parliament writes: "You are rising to be a factor in the situation, just +as Gillray was a factor in the Napoleonic wars." The difference is, +however, that instead of turning his satire exclusively upon the enemy, +as did Gillray, Captain Bairnsfather turns his--good-humouredly +always--on his fellow-warriors. This habit of ours of making fun of +ourselves has come by now to be fairly well understood by even the most +sensitive and serious-minded of our continental friends and neighbours. +It hardly needs nowadays to be pointed out that it is a fixed condition +of the national life that wherever Britons are working together in any +common object, whether in school, college, profession, or even warfare, +they must never _appear_ to be regarding their occupation too seriously. +Those who know us--and who, nowadays, has the excuse for not knowing us, +seeing how very much we have been discussed?--understand that our +frivolity is apparent and not real. Because we have the gift of +laughter, we are no less appreciative of grim realities than are our +scowling enemies, and nobody knows that better in these days than those +scowling enemies themselves. + +Their hymns of hate and prayers for punishment have been impotent +expressions of exasperation at our coolness, deliberation, and +inflexible determination--qualities they had deluded themselves before +the war into believing would prove all a sham before the first blast of +frightfulness. They told themselves that, a war once actually begun, the +imperturbable pipe-smoking John Bull would be transformed into a +cowering craven. More complete confusion of this false belief is nowhere +to be found than in these "Fragments." It ranks as a colossal German +defeat that successive bloodthirsty assaults upon us by land, sea, and +air should produce a Bairnsfather, depicting the "contemptible little +Army," swollen out of all recognition, settling humorously down to war +as though it were the normal business of life. + +"Fed up"? Yes, that is the word by which to describe, if you like, the +prevalent Bairnsfather expression of countenance. But the kind of +weariness he depicts is the reverse of the kind that implies "give up." +_Au contraire, mes amis!_ The "fed-up" Bairnsfather man is a fixture. +"_J'y suis_," he might exclaim, if he spoke French, "_et il m'embete que +j'y suis. Je voudrais que je n'y sois pas. Mais j'y suis, et, mes bons +camarades, par tous les dieux, j'y reste!_" + +If the enemy should read in the words "fed up" a sign that our tenacity +is giving out, he reads it wrong; grim will be the disillusionment of +any hopes he may build upon his misreading, and even grimmer the anger +of those whom he may have deluded. + +These _verdammte Englaender_ are never what they seem, but are always +something unpleasantly different. We are the Great Enigma of the war, +and in our mystery lies our greatest strength. Let us be careful not to +lose it. Those who would have us simplify ourselves upon the continental +model, and present to the world a picture of sombre seriousness, are +asking us to change our national character. Cromwell asked the painter +to paint him, "warts and all." Bairnsfather sketches us--smiles and all. +And who would take the smiles off the "dials" of the figures you will +see on the pages that follow? + +[Illustration: Where to Live--[ADVT.] + +IN ONE OF THE CHOICEST LOCALITIES OF NORTHERN FRANCE. + +TO BE LET (three minutes from German trenches), this attractive and + + WELL-BUILT DUG-OUT, + +containing one reception-kitchen-bedroom and UP-TO-DATE FUNK HOLE (4ft. +by 6ft.), all modern inconveniences, including gas and water. This +desirable Residence stands one foot above water level, commanding an +excellent view of the enemy trenches. + + EXCELLENT SHOOTING (SNIPE AND DUCK). + +--Particulars of the late Tenant, Room 6, Base Hospital, Bonlog c.] + + +[Illustration: "Where did that one go to?"] + + +[Illustration: + + What is this slimy dismal hole + Where oft I'm lurking like a mole + And cursing Germans heart and soul? + My Dug-Out + + Where is it that beneath the floor + The water's rising more and more + And where the roof's a broken door? + My Dug-Out + + Where is it that I try to sleep + Betwixt alarms, when up I leap + And dash through water four feet deep? + My Dug-Out + + Where is it that I'll catch a chill + And lose my only quinine pill + And probably remain until---- + I'm dug out? + My Dug-Out + +My Dug-Out: A lay of the trenches.] + + +[Illustration: That Evening Star-shell. + + "Oh, star of eve, whose tender beam + Falls on my spirit's troubled dream." + +--_Wolfram's Aria in "Tannhaeuser."_] + + +[Illustration: "They've evidently seen me."] + + +[Illustration: Situation Shortly Vacant. + +In an old-fashioned house in France an opening will shortly occur for a +young man, with good prospects of getting a rise.] + + +[Illustration: The Tactless Teuton. + +A member of the Gravediggers' Corps joking with a private in the +Orphans' Battalion, prior to a frontal attack.] + + +[Illustration: "Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it."] + + +[Illustration: Will you be---- + +mine! + +A Proposal in Flanders. + +The point of Jean's pitchfork awakens a sense of duty in a mine that +shirked.] + + +[Illustration: No Possible Doubt Whatever. + +Sentry: "'Alt! Who goes there?" + +He of the Bundle: "You shut yer ---- mouth, or I'll ---- come and knock +yer ---- head off!" + +Sentry: "Pass, friend!"] + + +[Illustration: "Gott strafe this barbed wire."] + + +[Illustration: So Obvious. + +The Young and Talkative One: "Who made that 'ole?" + +The Fed-up One: "Mice."] + + +[Illustration: The Fatalist. + +"I'm sure they'll 'ear this damn thing squeakin'."] + + +[Illustration: A Maxim Maxim. + +"Fire should be withheld till a favourable target presents itself."] + + +[Illustration: Our Adaptable Armies. + +Private Jones (late "Zogitoff," the comedy wire artist) appreciably +reduces the quantity of hate per yard of frontage.] + + +[Illustration: A.D. Nineteen Fifty. + +"I see the War Babies' Battalion is a coming out."] + + +[Illustration: Frustrated Ingenuity. + +Owing to dawn breaking sooner than he anticipated, that inventive +fellow, Private Jones, has a trying time with his latest creation, "The +Little Plugstreet," the sniper's friend.] + + +[Illustration: Keeping His Hand In. + +Private Smith, the company bomber, formerly "Shinio," the popular +juggler, frequently causes considerable anxiety to his platoon.] + + +[Illustration: "---- ---- these ---- ---- rations."] + + +[Illustration: Dear ---- + +"At present we are staying at a farm..."] + + +[Illustration: The Eternal Question. + +"When the 'ell is it goin' to be strawberry?"] + + +[Illustration: Directing the Way at the Front. + +"Yer knows the dead 'orse 'cross the road? Well, keep straight on till +yer comes to a p'rambulator 'longside a Johnson 'ole."] + + +[Illustration: The Late Comer. + +"Where 'ave you been? 'Avin' your bloomin' fortune told?"] + + +[Illustration: The Innocent Abroad. + +Out since Mons: "Well, what sort of a night 'ave yer 'ad?" + +Novice (but persistent optimist): "Oh, alright. 'Ad to get out and rest +a bit now and again."] + + +[Illustration: "There goes our blinkin' parapet again."] + + +[Illustration: "We shall attack at Dawn" + +"Never mind about that now, drink this." + +"The Push"--in Three Chapters. + +By one who's been "Pushed."] + + +[Illustration: "The Spirit of our Troops is Excellent."] + + +[Illustration: The Things that Matter. + +Scene: Loos, during the September offensive. + +Colonel Fitz-Shrapnel receives the following message from "G. H. +Q.":--"Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of +raspberry jam issued to you last Friday."] + + +[Illustration: The Soldier's Dream. + +A "Bitter" disappointment on waking.] + + +[Illustration: The Thirst for Reprisals. + +"'And me a rifle, someone. I'll give these ----s 'ell for this!"] + + +[Illustration: The Ideal and the Real. + +What we should like to see at our billets--and (inset) what we do see.] + + +[Illustration: "Watch me make a fire-bucket of 'is 'elmet."] + + +[Illustration: "That 16-inch Sensation."] + + +[Illustration: That Sword. + +How he thought he was going to use it----] + + +[Illustration: ----and how he did use it.] + + +[Illustration: What It Really Feels Like. + +To be on patrol duty at night-time.] + + +[Illustration: "The same old moon."] + + +[Illustration: "My dream for years to come."] + + +[Illustration: Coiffure in the Trenches. + +"Keep yer 'ead still, or I'll 'ave yer blinkin' ear off."] + + +[Illustration: Another Maxim Maxim. + +"Machine guns form a valuable support for infantry."] + + +[Illustration: Our Democratic Army. + +Member of Navvies' Battalion (to Colonel): "I say, yer mate's dropped +'is cane."] + + +[Illustration: Five days leave! Taxi!] + + +[Illustration: Never Again! + +"In future I snipe from the ground."] + + +[Illustration: Thoroughness. + +"What time shall I call you in the morning, sir?" + +(Colonel Chutney, V.C., home on short leave, decides to keep in touch +with dug-out life.)] + + +[Illustration: That Hat. + +"Pop out and get it, Bert." + +"Pop out yerself."] + + +[Illustration: Springtime in Flanders. + +"Personally, I think this is just what you want for laying your eggs in, +but, as Bairnsfather says, 'If you knows of a better 'ole, go to it.'"] + + +[Illustration: The Dud Shell--Or the Fuse-Top Collector. + +"Give it a good 'ard 'un, Bert; you can generally 'ear 'em fizzing a bit +first if they are a-goin' to explode."] + + +[Illustration: "What's all this about unmarried men?"] + + +[Illustration: The Historical Touch. + +"Well, Alfred, 'ow are the cakes?"] + + +[Illustration: His Initiation. + +No. 99988 Private Blobs (on sentry-go) feels that he has at last +stumbled across the true explanation of that somewhat cryptic +expression, "There'll be dirty work at the cross-roads to-night!"] + + +[Illustration: When One Would Like to Start an Offensive on One's Own. + +RECIPE FOR FEELING LIKE THIS--Bully, biscuits, no coke, and leave just +cancelled.] + + +[Illustration: Trouble With One of the Souvenirs. + +"'Old these a minute while I takes that blinkin' smile off 'is dial."] + + +[Illustration: The Conscientious Exhilarator. + +"_Every encouragement should be given for singing and +whistling._"--(Extract from a "Military Manual.") + +That painstaking fellow, Lieut. Orpheus, does his best, but finds it +uphill work at times.] + + +[Illustration: Its only a tumble down nest But-- + +The Nest. + +"'Ere, when you're finished, I'll borrow that there top note of yours to +clean the knives with."] + + +[Illustration: Those Superstitions. + +Private Sandy McNab cheers the assembly by pointing out (with the aid of +his pocket almanac) that it is Friday the 13th and that their number is +one too many.] + + +[Illustration: The Professional Touch. + +"Chuck us out that bag o' bombs, mate; it's under your 'ead."] + + +[Illustration: Happy Memories of the Zoo. + +"What Time do they Feed the Sea-Lions, Alf?"] + + +[Illustration: Observation. + +"'Ave a squint through these 'ere, Bill; you can see one of the ----'s +eatin' a sausage as clear as anythin'."] + + +[Illustration: Immediate and Important! + +Never has Private Smith's face felt so large and smooth as when he hands +his Captain the following message at what he feels is an unsuitable +moment: "The G.O.C. notices with regret the tendency of all ranks to +shave the upper lip. This practice must cease forthwith."] + + +[Illustration: Sir Plantagenet Smythe, at the battle of VIN ORDINAIRE +"On! On! ye Noble English!" + +2nd Lieut. P. Smith, at the taking of "dead-pig" farm "Come on you +chaps! We'll show these ----s Which side their ---- bread's buttered!" + +Other Times, Other Manners. + +The Decline of Poetry and Romance in War.] + + +[Illustration: His Dual Obsession. + +Owing to the frequent recurrence of this dream, Herr Fritz von +Lagershifter has decided to take his friends' advice: Give up sausage +late at night and brood less upon the possible size of the British Army +next spring.] + + +[Illustration: The Communication Trench. + +PROBLEM--Whether to walk along the top and risk it, or do another mile +of this.] + + +[Illustration: Letting Himself Down. + +Having omitted to remove the elastic band prior to descent, Herr Franz +von Flopp feels that the trial exhibition of his new parachute is a +failure.] + + +[Illustration: Old Saws and New Meanings----By Bairnsfather. + +There is certainly a lot of truth in that Napoleonic maxim, "An army +moves on its stomach."] + + +[Illustration: Nobbled. + +"'Ow long are you up for, Bill?" + +"Seven years." + +"Yer lucky ----, I'm duration."] + + +[Illustration: The Intelligence Department. + +"Is this 'ere the Warwicks?" + +"Nao. 'Indenburg's blinkin' Light Infantry."] + + +[Illustration: Valuable Fragment from Flanders: It All Comes to This in +Time. + +"This interesting fragment, found near Ypres (known to the ancients as +Wipers), throws a light on a subject which has long puzzled science, +i.e., what was the origin and meaning of those immense zigzag slots in +the ground stretching from Ostend to Belfort? There is no doubt that +there was some inter-tribal war on at this period."--_Extract from_ +"_The Bystander_," A.D. 4916.] + + +[Illustration: In Nineteen Something: General Sir Ian Jelloid at Home. + +Having picked up this cherished possession for a mere song at a sale +near Verdun, the General has now let his country seat, "Shrapnel Park," +and says he finds the new abode infinitely cheaper, and not a bit +draughty, if you keep the breech closed.] + + +[Illustration: In and Out (I). + +That last half-hour before "going in" to the same trenches for the 200th +time.] + + +[Illustration: In and Out (II). + +That first half-hour after "coming out" of those same trenches.] + + +[Illustration: THE 1ST BLOBSHIRE RIFLES EXPERT GAS & BOMB MANIPULATORS +TRENCHES TAKEN AT SHORTEST NOTICE COUNTER ATTACKS QUOTED FOR OUR +SPECIALITY: HOLDING MINE CRATERS FOR 24 HOURS + +TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "PLUMAPPLE" PLUGSTREET + +Pushfulness at Plug Street. + +Colonel Ian Jelloid, of the Blobshire Rifles, being an energetic and +businesslike man, believes in advertising as an antidote to stagnant +warfare.] + + +[Illustration: His Secret Sorrow. + +"I reckon this bloke must 'ave caught 'is face against some of them +forts at Verdun!"] + + +[Illustration: Are you there? + +"Only just" + +"S.O.S." + +The Hard Lines of Communication.] + + +[Illustration: The New Submarine Danger. + +"They'll be torpedoin' us if we stick 'ere much longer, Bill."] + + +[Illustration: This interesting view for 6 months ... or + +This for half an hour + +War! + +--As it is for most of us.] + + +[Illustration: A Matter of Moment. + +"What was that, Bill?" + +"Trench mortar." + +"Ours or theirs?"] + + +[Illustration: The Saint. + +That indiscriminating orb, the moon, gives Private Scattergood a saintly +appearance, sadly out of keeping with his thoughts. He's filling 100 +sandbags at 11 p.m.] + + +[Illustration: Those Tubular Trenches. + +"Is this right for 'eadquarters?" + +"Yes, change at Oxford Circus."] + + +[Illustration: "Of course, personally I dont think there is anyone +there" + +"Nor do I" + +Thinking it over subsequently in Boulogne,--an impression of +overcrowding predominates in recollections of "straighthing" that bit of +the line. + +"We Look Before----And After."] + + +[Illustration: Con Moto Perpetuo. + +"OUR BERT" (going on leave--having asked a question, and having listened +to three minutes' unintelligible eloquence): "And 'ow does the chorus +go?"] + + +[Illustration: Real Sympathy. + +"I wish you'd get something for that ---- cough of yours. That's the +second time you've blown the blinkin' candle out!"] + + +[Illustration: Entanglements. + +"Come on, Bert, it's safer in the trenches."] + + +[Illustration: "How long have you got Fred?" + +"LEAVE."] + + +[Illustration: There are times when Private Lightfoot feels absolutely +convinced that it's going to be a War of Exhaustion.] + + +[Illustration: Chat on 'Change. + +"You owes me two francs and I owes you one that's got into the lining of +me coat; that makes it right, don't it?"] + + +[Illustration: General Sir Frampton Prendergasp R.S.V.P. P.T.O. SOS a +rising and successful general, who is plotting an offensive + +The General . . . Cyrus Moffat + +Nancy Prendergasp, his daughter, who has gone in for nursing, unknown to +her father. She is in love with ---- + +Featuring Miss Sybil Fane + +DICK MANVERS a lance Corporal in the pay department, who, after +extensive & painful researches, has invented a new bomb + +"DICK" + +Steven Fairbrother + +Dick shows his new bomb to the General who decides to use it in the +offensive + +But is overheard and seen by Captain ADRIAN BLACK an unscrupulous +adventurer in the pay of a powerful Government + +That night he is seen by Nancy substituting PLUM & APPLE for The new +explosive + +END OF PART I + +PART II + +WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY + +Flanders Film Mfg Co--Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S.A.] + +[Illustration: The Offensive begins. The new bomb is found to be equally +explosive in spite of Captain Black's dark deed + +Nancy, who fears disaster, steals her Father's private Howitzer and +races to the Offensive + +Black throws every obstacle in her way + +"Dont you know me Dick?" + +The General, who has been doing a bit on his own, becomes the unwilling +witness of a touching scene + +The General having heard their story, orders the arrest of Captain Black + +How Dick Manvers Got His Star. + +Every familiar feature of the Film is happily caricatured by Captain +Bairnsfather in his amusing page of pictures. The hero, the heroine +(with smile), the villain, the heavy father, all of the most approved +pattern--everything down to the meticulous inaccuracy characteristic of +the American film in matters of detail, is shown with the good-natured +sarcasm befitting a master of satire as well as of humour, while the +story tells itself with breathless enthusiasm.] + + +[Illustration: The Whip Hand. + +Private Mulligatawny (the Australian Stock-whip wonder) frequently +causes a lot of bother in the enemy's trenches.] + + +[Illustration: Christmas Day: How it dawned for many.] + + +[Illustration: "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy +stands."] + + +[Illustration: Veni 1914 + +Vidi 1915 + +Vici! 1916 + +Augusts Three. + +To each year its type.] + + + +[Illustration: Overheard in an Orchard. + +Said the Apple to the Plum: "Well, anyway, old man, they can never ask +us what we did in the great war!"] + + +[Illustration: LEARN To FIGHT + +Anyone with a taste for Fishing, or Moth Collecting can learn to fight. + +Anyone can put a hook in a worm, or a pin in a moth. WE DEVELOP THAT +INSTINCT, and by our Postal Course of Instruction, will help you to earn +big money by fighting + +Subjects Taught:-- + +Bayonet work, bombing, & asphyxiation. + +This sketch shows the work of a former pupil. Try this exercise yourself +on a friend, and tell us the result. We will at once tell you your +chances of success. + +A lieutenant writes:-- + +Unfortunately I had not got as far as your chapter on Upper Cuts or I +feel sure I should not be where I am now + +yrs truly + +Clearing Station GezainCourt. + +Bruce Bairnsfather + +The demand for fighters exceeds the supply + +Write today + +The Asphyxobomb School of Instruction + +[Advt] Hooge. + + +Tips for Tommies. + +Now that the war has become a world business, we must at any moment +expect the appearance of this sort of thing in our papers.] + + +[Illustration: Whilst the preliminary bombardment is on, one gets the +idea that this is what's happening to the enemy machine guns. + +Yet somehow or other, when one starts for that 220 yards handicap across +the turnip field, it feels something like this. + +Bruce Bairnsfather + +The Offensive. + +What it looks like--and what it feels like.] + + +[Illustration: "The Imminent, Deadly Breach." + +"Mind you don't fall through the seat of yer trousers, 'Arry!"] + + +[Illustration: Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat +as one. + +Telepathy. + +"Two minds with but a single thought."] + + +[Illustration: Trouville-sur-Somme. + +"Tell 'er to 'op it, Bert. I'm sittin' on a bit o' shell or +somethin'."] + + +[Illustration: Omar the Optimist. + + "Here with a loaf of bread beneath the row, + A muttered curse, but ne'er a whine, and thou-- + Beside me, singing in the wilderness, + The wilderness is Paradise enow."] + + +[Illustration: "Where do yer want this put, Sargint?"] + + +[Illustration: Coming to the Point. + +"Let's 'ave this pin of yours a minute. I'll soon 'ave these winkles out +of 'ere."] + + +[Illustration: A Castle in the Air. + +"A few more, Bert, and that there chateau won't be worth livin' in."] + + +[Illustration: The Freedom of the Seas. + +"I wish they'd 'old this war in England--don't you, Bill?" (No +answer.)] + + +[Illustration: In Dixie-Land. + +"Well, Friday--'ow's Crusoe?"] + + +[Illustration: Alas! Poor Herr Von Yorick! + +Fricourt--July, 1916.] + + +[Illustration: Those Signals. + +THE VIGILANT ONE: "I say, old chap, what does two green lights and one +red one mean?" + +RECUMBENT GLADIATOR (just back from leave): "Two cremes de menthe and a +cherry brandy!"] + + +[Illustration: His Christmas Goose. + +"You wait till I comes off dooty!"] + + +[Illustration: Urgent. + +"Quick, afore this comes down!"] + + +[Illustration: That tin hat feels something like this on the way to the +Offensive + +And about like this when you get there + +My Hat! + +Helmets, Shrapnel, One.] + + +[Illustration: The Candid Friend. + +"Well, yer know, I like the photo of you in your gas mask best."] + + +[Illustration: The Long and the Short of It. + +UP LAST DRAFT: "I suppose you 'as to be careful 'ow you looks over the +parapet about 'ere." + +OUT SINCE MONS: "You needn't worry, me lad; the rats are going to be +your only trouble."] + + +[Illustration: "Old Moore" at the Front. + +"As far as I can make out from this 'ere prophecy-book, Bill, the +seventh year is going to be the worst, and after that every +fourteenth!"] + + +[Illustration: Supra-Normal. + +Captain Mills-Bomme's temperature cracks the thermometer on seeing his +recent daring exploits described as "On our right there is nothing to +report." + +(_He and his battalion had merely occupied three lines of German +trenches, and held them through a storm of heavy Lyddite for forty-eight +hours._)] + + +[Illustration: 'old these ---- biscuits a minute while I 'as a go at +this ---- stuff + +"Where the ---- 'ell are ye comin to!" + +"---- your ---- eyes you can ---- well carry these ---- things yerself" + +"yer ---- well wants elephants for this job" + +Tactical Developments. + +Private 9998 Blobs has always thought a machine for imitating the sound +of ration parties (and thus drawing fire) an excellent idea, but simply +hates his evening for working it.] + + +[Illustration: Bang Bang + +Crash + +Bang + +Crash + +That "Out Wiring" Sensation.] + + +[Illustration: Natural History of the War + +The Flanders Sea Lion (Leo Maritimus). + +"An almost extinct amphibian, first discovered in Flanders during the +Winter of 1914-15. Feeds almost exclusively on Plum and Apple Jam and +Rum. Only savage when the latter is knocked off."] + + +[Illustration: Things that Irritate. + +Private Wm. Jones is not half so annoyed at accidentally falling down +the mine crater as he is at hearing two friends murmuring the first +verse of "Don't go down the mine, Daddy."] + + +[Illustration: Still Keeping His Hand In. + +Private Smith (late Shinio, the popular juggler) appreciably lowers the +protective value of his section's shrapnel helmets by practising his +celebrated plate and basin spinning act.] + + +[Illustration: Those ---- Mouth-Organs. + +"Keep away from the 'ive, Bert; 'e's goin' to sting yer!"] + + +[Illustration: Garcong! the bill, tres vite! + +That Provost-Marshal Feeling. + +A sensation only to be had at a Base--in other words, a base +sensation.] + + +[Illustration: Blighty!] + + +[Illustration: Those Raiders at the Seat of War. + +"I wish the 'ell you'd put a cork on that blinkin' pin of yours, +Bert!"] + + +[Illustration: Romance, 1917. + +"Darling, every potato that I have is yours" (engaged).] + + +[Illustration: Modern Topography. + +"Well, you see, here's the church and there's the post-office."] + + +[Illustration: "There Was a Young Man of Cologne." + +(I've forgotten the rest of the poem, but it's something about "a bomb" +and "If only he'd known.")] + + +[Illustration: In the Support Trench. + +Old Bill has practically decided to get Private Shinio (the +ex-comedy-juggler and hand-balancer) transferred to another platoon.] + + +[Illustration: It's the Little Things that Worry. + +What is so particularly annoying to Private Lovebird is, that he would +not have had this bother with his dug-out if his leave had not been +postponed.] + + +[Illustration: That Periscope Sensation. + +"I wonder if I oughtn't to tell the captain about that thing sticking up +in the sea over there."] + + +[Illustration: At the Brewery Baths. + +"You chuck another sardine at me, my lad, and you'll hear from my +solicitors."] + + +[Illustration: A Miner Success. + +"They must 'ave 'ad some good news or somethin', Alf; you can 'ear 'em +cheerin' quite plain."] + + +[Illustration: Birds of Ill Omen. + +"There's evidently goin' to be an offensive around 'ere, Bert."] + + +[Illustration: If Only They'd Make "Old Bill" President of Those +Tribunals. + +"Well, what's your job, me lad?" + +"Making spots for rocking-horses, sir." + +"Three months." + +"Exemption, sir?" + +"Nao, exemption be ----d! Three months' hard!"] + + +[Illustration: "Stars is funny things aint they Bill" + +"Yes--funny!" + +The Stargazers. + +--and their return to earth.] + + +[Illustration: Down at the Ration Dump. + +"Call me a Tank again, my lad, and I'll knock yer ---- 'ead off!"] + + +[Illustration: The Glorious Fifth. + +"'Ere, Guy Fawkes--buzz off!"] + + +[Illustration: "Yes, you are, one pound nineteen and elevenpence +overdrawn, and that includes next month's pay" + +Cox's. + +When one feels rather in favour of floating a War Loan of one's own.] + + +[Illustration: This Muddy War. + +"These 'ere staff cars do splash a lot, don't they, Bill?" (No +answer.)] + + +[Illustration: Unappetising. + +Moments when the Savoy, the Alhambra, and the Piccadilly Grill seem very +far away (the offensive starts in half an hour).] + + +[Illustration: Fred's got leave! + +That Leave Train + +Second lieutenant Enoch Arden arrives on leave + +Fred! + +"The train was a bit late darling" + +That "Leave" Train.] + + +[Illustration: One often hears the question:-- + +"What could Napoleon have done in the Great War?" + +He could certainly not have gone in for this + +It would have to be this, or nothing + +Other Times----Other Manners.] + + +[Illustration: The Tourists, 19..? + +"Remember this place, Bert?" + +"Yes, it's where we used to chuck the fish to you, ain't it, Bill?"] + + +[Illustration: Alas! My poor Brother! + +(_In this cartoon Captain Bairnsfather refers to the report that the +corpses of German soldiers fallen in battle were utilised in a +Corpse-Conversion Factory for the purpose of providing fats for the +Fatherland._)] + + +[Illustration: Can-Tank-erous. + +"'Ere! Where the 'ell are ye comin' with that Turkish bath o' yours?"] + + +[Illustration: Curfew. + +What particularly annoys Lieutenant Jones, R.F.A. (who thought he could +get a better view from the belfry), is that irritating prediction which +keeps passing through his head, "The curfew shall not ring to-night."] + + +[Illustration: TAISEZ VOUS! MEFIEZ VOUS LES OREILLES ENSEMBLE VOUS +ECOUTENT + +On the "Leave" Train. + +You will never quite realise how closely we are bound to our French Ally +until you have had the good fortune to travel on one of those "leave" +trains--six a side, windows shut, fifty miles to go, and eighteen hours +to do it!] + + +[Illustration: Getting the Local Colour. + +In that rare and elusive period known as "Leave" it is necessary to +reconstruct the "Atmosphere" of the front as far as possible in order to +produce the weekly "Fragment."] + + +[Illustration: The Ghost of Dead Pig Farm--19..? + +At midnight, an indignant, husky voice is heard to say: "B---- these +blinkin' sandbags."] + + +[Illustration: George versus Germany. + +Should Mr. Robey be at any time called upon to go to the Front, he must +be careful how he does this: "I'm surprised at you, Ludendorff!"] + + +[Illustration: A Puzzle for Paderewski. + +"It's a pity Alf ain't 'ere, Bert; 'e can play the piana wonderful."] + + +[Illustration: "Substitutes" in the Field. + +"I thought you said your uncle was a sending you an umbrella."] + + +[Illustration: Leave. + +Dep.: Paddington 2.15. Arr. Home 4.] + + +[Illustration: ROLLS-DAIMLER, 1917.--Four-seated Coupe body (tres +coupe). Hardly been used, beautifully finished (almost completely). One +dickey seat (_very_ dickey), detachable rims (two already detached). +Only driven 10 miles (Albert to Gommecourt). Excellent shock absorber +(has absorbed any amount). In exceptional condition. L650 (or good bath +chair). BARGAIN.--Captain Somepush, No. 2, Red Cross, Rouen.] + + +[Illustration: Merely a Warning. + +You dirty dog + +To those who may be contemplating picking up a Government car cheaply +after the war. Insist on seeing photograph. Don't be satisfied by just +reading the advertisements.] + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's notes: + +With the three noted exceptions, punctuation anomalies were retained to +match the original drawings. The exceptions are in the books printed +explanations, not in any cartoon. + +Page 5, period added to illustration caption ("Jack Johnson" shell.) + +Page 112, single opening quote changed to double. ("You wait till I) + +Page 125, period added to title of picture to match rest of format (That +Provost-Marshal Feeling.) + +Pages 93 and 98 were halves of the same comic. They were reattached to +aid readability. 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