[Illustration: THE EXCURSIONIST SCENE: Ticket Office at ---- (_censored_). Tripper Wilhelm. "FIRST CLASS TO PARIS." Clerk. "LINE BLOCKED." Wilhelm. "THEN MAKE IT WARSAW." Clerk. "LINE BLOCKED." Wilhelm. "WELL, WHAT ABOUT CALAIS?" Clerk. "LINE BLOCKED." Wilhelm. "HANG IT! I _MUST GO SOMEWHERE_! I PROMISED MY PEOPLE I WOULD." November 4, 1914.] [Illustration: THE EAGLE COMIQUE KAISER (_reviving old Music-hall refrain_). "HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN _CALAIS_?" November 18, 1914.] [Illustration: GOOD HUNTING A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK November 18, 1914.] [Illustration: MEN OF FEW WORDS Grand Duke Nicholas. "ÇA MARCHE?" General Joffre. "ASSEZ BIEN. ET CHEZ VOUS?" Grand Duke. "PAS MAL." December 2, 1914.] [Illustration: THE KING AT THE FRONT "Tommy" (_having learned the language_). "VIVE LE ROI!" December 9, 1914.] [Illustration: THE INNOCENT Crown Prince. "THIS OUGHT TO MAKE FATHER LAUGH!" [In an alleged interview the CROWN PRINCE is reported to have said, "As to being a war agitator, I am truly sorry that people don't know me better. There is no 'War Party' in Germany now--nor has there ever been."] December 9, 1914.] [Illustration: KILLED! [With _Mr. Punch's_ compliments to General Botha] December 16, 1914.] [Illustration: FULFILMENT Austria. "I SAID ALL ALONG THIS WAS GOING TO BE A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION" December 23, 1914.] [Illustration: THE BREAKING OF THE SPELL STEINBACH, JANUARY 3, 1915 January 13, 1915.] [Illustration: AN AWFUL WARNING Austria (to Rumania). "NOW, BE CAREFUL! REMEMBER WHAT I DID TO SERBIA!" January 20, 1915.] [Illustration: THE OUTCAST A PLACE IN THE SHADOW February 19, 1915.] [Illustration: A PAINFUL REFLECTION Austria. "HEAVENS! AM I REALLY AS BAD AS THAT? TAKE IT AWAY." [It seems to be dawning upon Vienna that the armies of Austria have not been consistently victorious.] April 14, 1915.] [Illustration: CANADA! YPRES: APRIL 22-24, 1915 May 5, 1915.] [Illustration: THE NEW ARMY TO THE FRONT December 30, 1914.] UNCLE SAM [Illustration: NOTHING DOING Imperial Dachshund. "Here I've been sitting up and doing tricks for the best part of seven weeks, and you take no more notice of me than if----" Uncle Sam. "Cut it out!" September 23, 1914.] [Illustration: AS BETWEEN FRIENDS British Lion. "Please don't look at me like that, Sam. _YOU_'RE not the eagle I'm up against." January 6, 1915.] [Illustration: A BRAZEN BAND Imperial Conductor. "Stick to it, Tirpitz; keep on melting their hearts!" March 31, 1915.] [Illustration: REJECTED ADDRESSES KAISER (_to America_). "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; But why did you kick me downstairs?" April 21, 1915.] [Illustration: THE RESOURCEFUL LOVER TEUTON TROUBADOUR (_serenading the fair Columbia_). "If she won't listen to my love-songs, I'll try her with a brick!" February 17, 1915.]