1. How’d you like it over there? 2. Did you see any subs? 3. Did you see any fighting? 4. Could you hear the guns? 5. How close did you get to the front? 6. Did you see any American soldiers? 7. How many men have we got over there? 8. How are things in Paris? 9. Were you in England? 10. How are things in London? 11. Were you in any air raids? 12. How long is it going to last? Now truth may be stranger than fiction, but it’s also a whole lot duller. Most of my answers have very evidently bored my audiences to the point of extinction. Yet I hesitate to start weaving the well-known tangled web. I’d be bound to trip in it sooner or later. Last night, in desperation, I drafted a card along the line of Mr. Brown’s. But it lacked wallop, as you can see for yourself. 1. Oh, pretty well. 2. No. 3. A little. 4. Oh, yes. 5. A mile and a half, on the observation hill. 6. Oh, yes. 7. That’s supposed to be a secret. 8. Pretty gay. 9. Yes. 10. All right, so far as I could see. 11. No. 12. I don’t know. THE END Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced. Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations.