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.