that they must if the feet are to do the work for which the army calls. A few minutes attention per day given to these points will, I am confident, help to procure and maintain health for the soldier. But all his care will be wasted unless that which he takes _inside_ his body is wholesome--food and drink. In camps the soldier usually has all his food cooked for him, and it is the duty of his officers to see that it is good in quality, sufficient in quantity, and reasonably well cooked. As the soldier does the serving himself, that is entirely his own lookout. In the trenches it is not possible to have things arranged as one has in camp. The regimental cookers were usually stationed about three miles from the firing line--for their safety--and all the food was cooked there and sent up to the lines in boxes or sandbags, and apportioned to the various platoons according to the number of men on the strength. Three times a week the cooks were given fresh meat to prepare for us--when the Government says it is fresh it is fresh even in Summer time and when the flies have been busy--and for the other days we subsisted on canned meats or "bully beef" as it was called. The meat was either baked or boiled, though sometimes we got a stew--in camp we got too many stews! Potatoes were boiled, usually in their jackets. This food we could heat in the trenches in our individual cooking apparatus, which also served to cook our ration of bacon for breakfast, while in the upper part of the tin we made tea. Of course in the trenches we had to eat whatever we could get, but our lot was relieved considerably by the arrival of delicacies from England by the parcel post. This sometimes subjected us to the temptation that we were under while in training, and that was to eat pastry and suchlike food, which, while very appetising, is not to be recommended as a diet for the soldier. [Illustration: FIGURE 3: Showing position of body behind earth, and direction of fire round right side of cover.] On the question of DRINK my views have become very pronounced since my experience with the army. Undoubtedly the best universal drink for the soldier is tea--preferably weak. I should say water were it always possible to get water that is pure. But during a campaign pure water is a luxury. By making the water into tea you make sure that it gets boiled, and by the addition of tea you get a beverage that has not the insipid sickly flavour of boiled or sterilised water. Coffee is preferred by Americans, I know, but there are dangers to be recognised especially by those whose hearts are inclined to be weak.