It may or may not be that Mr. Kipling is thinking of the Y.M.C.A. I do not know the title of his poem, or whether it has yet appeared elsewhere, or another line of it. These lines I owe to his kindness, and as usual they crystallise all that one was trying to say. But to some of us the crumbs that fell were a feast of fine humanity, and great indeed was his reward who gathered them. _Printed in Great Britain by _Butler and Tanner_, Frome and London._ Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in the original edtion have been corrected. In "Under Way", =equal fimrness and good-humour= was changed to =equal firmness and good-humour=. In "Christmas Day", =abroad on the battlefield= was changed to =abroad on the battle-field=. In "The Babes in the Trenches", =The fire was out; it seemed= was changed to =The fire was out, it seemed=. In "Orderly Men", a period was changed to a comma after =copies for myself=. In "The Hut in Being", ='I don't want the political'!= was changed to ='I don't want the political!'= In "War and the Man", =argumentum at hominem= was changed to =argumentum ad hominem=.