This year his instinct (true, though dumb) Tells him by subtle signs No bullet loosed by me shall come Shattering earth below his tum Or whistling through his tines. Yet little knows he why the hill Misses my wonted feet, Or how I've learned a lethal skill At mimic butts that bodes him ill When next I stalk his beat. I trow that he would swoon for fright Upon the purple ling To know that in a decent light I'd undertake the death, at sight, Of any living thing. O not for nothing do I grow Efficient, eye and hand, Schooling myself to strike a blow In home defence against a foe That never means to land. Some fruit of toil there yet shall be For this poor volunteer; When War's abatement sets him free From bloodless duties, I foresee A deadly time for deer! O.S. * * * * * MR. PUNCH'S UNAUTHORISED WAR PICTURES. FIRST SERIES. AT THE FRONT. [Illustration: GENERAL LLOYD GEORGE, WAR LORD.] * * * * * [Illustration: MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL (JOURNALIST) GIVES THE HUN ANOTHER SHOCK.] * * * * * AT THE FRONT. [Illustration: MR. ARNOLD BENNETT AND MR. H.G. WELLS (_rival bookmakers--together_). "WHAT'S THIS FELLOW DOING HERE?"] * * * * * [Illustration: _Mr. Hilaire Belloc_. "THIS TRENCH IS WRONG. IT DOESN'T AGREE WITH MY MAP."] * * * * * AT THE FRONT. [Illustration: SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO TAKES A TRIP ON A TANK TO SEE HOW HOUSES ARE BROUGHT DOWN.] * * * * * [Illustration: SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES TO ALLOW SIR HERBERT TREE TO THROW OFF A FEW SOLILOQUIES FROM _HAMLET_.] * * * * * AT THE FRONT. [Illustration: LORD NORTHCLIFFE DICTATES AN ARTICLE FOR _THE TIMES_.] * * * * * [Illustration: MR. WOODROW WILSON (WITH MASCOT) TRIES TO FIND A SYMPATHETIC SOUL.] * * * * * [Illustration: Mr. PUNCH'S NATIONAL SERVICE FOR ALL. It is not implied that the above are at present out of War Work--but Mr. Punch is very anxious to see everybody's natural gifts employed to the best advantage.] [Illustration: LITTLE TICH proves of the greatest assistance to the Field Telegraph Service MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY contents himself with the post of Advisory Instructor to the Prime Minister. MR. BERNARD SHAW, with supreme self-denial, consents to acts as a Scarecrow on the Land. CHARLIE CHAPLIN devotes his energies to recruiting. MLLE. GABY DESLYS turns her taste in millinery to account. LORD HALSBURY joins the Boy Scouts.] * * * * * SECOND SERIES. IN FRONT OF THE FRONT. SOME OF THE ENEMY'S UNFULFILLED ANTICIPATIONS. [Illustration: WILLIAM IN BAGHDAD.] * * * * * [Illustration: FRANCIS-JOSEPH IN VENICE.] * * * * *