STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES _Humorous and Lively Doings of Our Boys “Over There”_ Gathered From Authentic Sources BY CARLETON B. CASE SHREWESBURY PUBLISHING CO. CHICAGO Copyright, 1918, by SHREWESBURY PUBLISHING CO. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE The Man Who “Came Back” 5 Franco-Yanko Romances 14 Trench Superstitions 25 In the Trail of the Hun 30 When “Ace” Lufbery Bagged No. 13 41 Life at the Front 47 The “Fiddler’s Truce” at Arras 55 Harry Lauder Does His Bit 57 King George Under Fire 63 Story of Our First Shot 68 Stories from the Front 71 Uncle Sam, Detective 75 Didn’t Raise His Boy to Be a “Slacker” 86 The 100-Pound Terror of the Air 90 The Watch-Dogs of the Trenches 96 General Bell Redeems His Promise 101 Letters from the Front 105 Meet Tommy, D. C. Medal Man 114 German Falcon Killed in Air Duel 119 He Taught the Tank to Prowl and Slay 122 Taking Moving Pictures Under Shell-fire 128 Weighty Measures Involving Uncle Sam’s Navy 137 Enlisted Men Tell Why They Joined the Army 142 Tommy Atkins, Rain-soaked and War-worn, Still Grins 146 Something New for the Marines 150 STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES THE MAN WHO “CAME BACK” ONE of the strangest of the many personal romances which the war has brought is the tale of a man who, dismissed from the British Army by court martial, redeemed himself through service with that most heterogeneous of organizations, the French Foreign Legion. His name was John F. Elkington, and he had held an honored post for more than thirty years. Then, just as his regiment, in the closing months of 1914, was going into the fighting on the Western front, he was cashiered for an unrevealed error and deprived of the opportunity to serve his country.