The people all round here speak Flemish; it is a curious mixture of English, French, and German, and they sometimes give us useful information. They are a fine healthy stock, and work like niggers for us. Our hostess was up all night feeding soldiers as they came in. Yesterday I met a splendid old man, who told me all about his son and showed me his photograph; he had one postcard from his son, with no date, merely saying, “All well,” and the old man told me he had buried it in the garden for fear the Germans should come and take it from him. That gave me some idea of how people at home feel about their relatives at the front: _Despatch-rider Gabain, 1st Cavalry Brigade_. “Jambon!” We sleep fourteen in a tent, which is a bit crowded, but we are not in it long enough to notice it. Fourteen of us washed in two quarts of water this morning! So we have plenty of ink, and some of us haven’t changed our clothes for five or six weeks. We have two rather queer pets here: two little pigs, who run about among the horses, and are quite friendly with them, and eat their corn as well. As one of the fellows said, pork (or, as the French call it, _jambon_) tastes very nice boiled, so they may be, before very long, in the casualty list as missing or prisoners of war: _Lance-Corpl. Forward, Army Service Corps_. XX. SUMMING IT UP _We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake: the faith and morals hold Which Milton held._ WORDSWORTH’S “It is not to be thought of.” _Drink! to our fathers who begot us men, To the dead voices that are never dumb; Then to the land of all our loves, and then To the long parting, and the age to come._ HENRY NEWBOLT’S “Sacramentum Supremum.” Now we have our nose in the right direction, but it’s stiff work and slow, and a case of dog eat dog, the meat being tough on either side: _Sergt. Surr, East Lancashires_. “Chin-Waggers” Don’t run away with the idea that this is going to be an easy thing, for it’s not, and the sooner the fireside chin-waggers at home realize it the sooner will the job be finished in the way a soldier likes to see such jobs done: _Private E. Mayhead_. The Better Man The German bully has not quite come up to expectations. Tommy is his superior in every department, bar telling lies, of which the “sausage” has no superior. They are getting hard hit all over the place, and seem anxious to get back to the Vaterland: _Corporal Rogers_. No Anxiety Surely you are not anxious in England about the result of the war. There can only be one result if Germany still continues to fight--that is, the absolute destruction of her army. There has no one been taken in more than we ourselves have been with the quality of the German army: _Pte. Harker, Army Service Corps_. Volunteers!