I think the worst part of it all to bear is seeing the refugees; it breaks you up to see people too old to walk being pushed about in wheelbarrows and hand-carts. Let the Germans look out if the French and the Belgians get into Germany, for there will be the devil to pay, I bet. It would be hard to blame them, whatever they do, after what I have seen done to villages here.... The pepper is good stuff; I put some in my tea--it warms you up a treat: _Bombardier Yorke, R.H.A._ XV. ANECDOTES OF HUMOUR _Said the king to the colonel, “The complaints are eternal, That you Irish give more trouble Than any other corps.”_ _Said the colonel to the king, “This complaint is no new thing, For your foemen, sire, have made it A hundred times before.”_ SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. The French tobacco is terrible, and the matches! Oh! Our fellows have christened them “Asquiths” because you have to “wait and see”: _A Private of the R.A.M.C._ “Blime!” One German Uhlan came up to an outpost of the Northampton and said, “Blime, take me a prisoner, I am fed up.” He had worked in London: _A Private of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment_. The Proof of It A woman said laughingly to me, “If you kill the Kaiser you shall have my daughter.” I replied that I could do that all right, and that she could have a hair of his moustache: _Private R. Coombe_. Laughter! Although the war has its stern, hard, realistic side, there is also a humorous side, especially so with our Tommies. They turn almost everything into a joke; in fact, I think that is the secret of their wonderful sang-froid: _Quartermaster-Sergt. Ridewood, 2nd Welsh Regiment_. A Great Game What a dirty-looking lot we were--holes in our clothes and beards. Every time we passed a clothes-line the fellows took the clothes off it. They had lassies’ nightdresses and chemises, and anything, so long as it made a shirt. What a game it was! _A Private of the 5th Lancers_. “Fine Feeds” We are having good sport out here. I have got as good a heart now as I had when I left home. I tell you, there is nothing better than having a few shells and bullets buzzing round you as long as you don’t stop one. We are having some fine feeds out here--ducks, chickens, rabbits, and bags of fruit: _Trooper Maddocks, 5th Cavalry Brigade_. No Tango in Paris The Germans painted on the walls, “We will make the English do the Tango in Paris on September 13.” But we have had a say in that, and I am certain there are a few thousands less Germans now than there were since they wrote that message: _Pte. W. Blackburn, 2nd Coldstream Guards_. L.B.W.!