[Ill.u.s.tration: 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."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: "There goes our blinkin" parapet again."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: "We shall attack at Dawn"
"Never mind about that now, drink this."
"The Push"--in Three Chapters.
By one who"s been "Pushed."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: "The Spirit of our Troops is Excellent."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: 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."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Soldier"s Dream.
A "Bitter" disappointment on waking.]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Thirst for Reprisals.
""And me a rifle, someone. I"ll give these ----s "ell for this!"]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Ideal and the Real.
What we should like to see at our billets--and (inset) what we do see.]
[Ill.u.s.tration: "Watch me make a fire-bucket of "is "elmet."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: "That 16-inch Sensation."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: That Sword.
How he thought he was going to use it----]
[Ill.u.s.tration: ----and how he did use it.]
[Ill.u.s.tration: What It Really Feels Like.
To be on patrol duty at night-time.]
[Ill.u.s.tration: "The same old moon."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: "My dream for years to come."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Coiffure in the Trenches.
"Keep yer "ead still, or I"ll "ave yer blinkin" ear off."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Another Maxim Maxim.
"Machine guns form a valuable support for infantry."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Democratic Army.
Member of Navvies" Battalion (to Colonel): "I say, yer mate"s dropped "is cane."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Five days leave! Taxi!]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Never Again!
"In future I snipe from the ground."]
[Ill.u.s.tration: 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.)]