1955. --_HACKED_ MY WAY THROUGH-- 1960. --RIGHT UP TO THEIR GENERAL-- 1965. --CUT HIS HEAD OFF-- 1970. --_THAT_ WAS ON IT!" THE MAKING OF HISTORY] [Illustration: "WELL, I'M BLOWED IF I SEE-- --WHAT GOOD-- --I CAN BE-- --TURNING OUT-- --TO FIGHT-- --THEM-- --BLOOMING-- --GERMANS-- --WITH ALL THEIR-- --GUNS-- --AND THEIR MILLIONS O' MEN-- --AND SO FORTH-- --AND SO ON. BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS, THEY HAVE,-- 1914-1918--I.] [Illustration: --FOR THE LAST FORTY YEARS-- --AND NOT SO PARTICULAR, EITHER, MIND YOU,-- --A DIRTY LOT,-- --WITH THEIR ZEPPS-- --AND SUBMARINES. IT'S NOT AS IF-- --WE WERE A MILITARY NATION-- --OR TOOK KINDLY TO IT AT ALL. IN FACT-- --I DON'T WONDER-- --IT'S TAKEN US-- --OVER-- --FOUR YEARS-- --TO FINISH THE JOB." 1914-1918--II.] [Illustration: _Boche (suddenly appearing over the top):_ "KAMERAD! KAMERAD!" _Briton:_ "LOR', MY SON, YOU _DID_ GIVE ME A TURN. I THOUGHT YOU WAS AN ENEMY."] [Illustration: "I WANT YOU TO MAKE ME A TUNIC-- RANK? BRIGADIER-- YES, ONE OR TWO RIBBONS TO GO ON IT-- MILITARY CROSS-- D.S.O.-- AND A V.C. OF COURSE-- LEGION OF HONOUR, C.M.G. AND SO FORTH-- TEN WOUND STRIPES-- AND MAKE AS SMART A JOB OF IT AS YOU CAN, WON'T YOU? BECAUSE-- I WANT IT FOR PRIVATE THEATRICALS." THE HERO] [Illustration: "AND LOOK HERE, FRITZ-- --WHATEVER HAPPENS-- --SEE YOU KEEP-- THEM HANDS OF YOURS-- --WELL ABOVE-- YOUR BLINKIN' HEAD."] [Illustration: BEFORE. AFTER. CAMOUFLAGE] [Illustration: "HERE, LISTEN TO THIS. IT SAYS THE GOV'MENT HAVE BOUGHT UP ALL THE STRAWBERRIES TO MAKE JAM FOR THE TROOPS." "GO ON, GEORGE! HOW CAN THEY MAKE PLUM-AND-APPLE OUT O' STRAWBERRIES?"] [Illustration: _Tommy ("Mopping-up" captured trench):_ "IS THERE ANYONE DOWN THERE?" _Voice from dug-out:_ "JA! JA! KAMERAD!" _Tommy:_ "THEN COME OUT HERE AND FRATERNISE." ] [Illustration: IT WAS UNFORTUNATE THAT BROWN HAD NOT FINISHED HIS MASTERPIECE, "THE SURRENDER OF THE GARRISON," BY THE TIME THE WAR CAME TO AN END. HOWEVER, IT NEEDED VERY LITTLE ALTERATION TO MAKE IT SALEABLE.] [Illustration: _Sociable Escort (to Boche prisoner, after several ineffectual attempts to start a conversation):_ "AHEM!--ER--NO TROUBLE AT HOME, I HOPE?"] [Illustration: _The Wit:_ "AH, NOW YOU'RE FOR IT, ALBERT." _Tractor-Driver:_ "WOT'S THE MATTER?" _The Wit:_ "WHY, YOU'VE BEEN AND GONE AND COME ON PARADE WITHOUT YOUR SPURS."] [Illustration: 1914.--MR. WILLIAM SMITH ANSWERS THE CALL TO PRESERVE HIS NATIVE SOIL INVIOLATE. 1919.--MR. WILLIAM SMITH COMES BACK AGAIN, TO SEE HOW WELL HE HAS DONE IT.] [Illustration: _First Contemptible:_ "D'YOU REMEMBER HALTING HERE ON THE RETREAT, GEORGE?"