May, 1918

Mine Katrina,—So long since I write,
You vill tink I am dead maybe yet;
If I never come back from dis fight,
Den some udder old feller you get.
Vell I tells you de reason, mine frau,
Vy already mine letters vill shtop,
Ven John Bull soon finds oudt I can plow
Den he vant me to put in de crop.

In de vorld if dere's not enough veat,
For to make all de beeples some pread,
Den de poor vill get notting to eat,
Und dey all vill go britty soon dead,
So John Bull some potatoes vill sow,
Vere dose rabbits und pheasants haf stayed,
Und de veat, oats und barley vill grow
Vere de tennis und cricket vas blayed.

To pe oudt on de land it seems good,
Vere dose onions and cabbages grow,
Vere de pigs fall ashleep in de mud
Und de ducks in de vater vill go;
But I vork so hard now efry day,
Und I gets so beeg tired py night,
To dose friends dat I luf far avay
Den I hafn't no courage to write.

I shoost vork, und I shleep, und I eat,
So I hafn't much news for to send;
You vould hear of de Sherman redreat,
Vell I hopes dis beeg var vill soon end.
All mine troubles I hardly can't bear,
How is tings in de Faderland now?
If ve lose yet, or vin, I don't care,
So I only get back to mine frau.

Yours ever.
Fritz.

INDEX TO WAR RHYMES

[Foreword]Page
[Modern Diplomacy]5
[The Allied Forces]6
[The Modern Good Samaritan]8
[Satan's Soliloquy]9
[The Canadian Way]10
[The English Womans Complaint]11
[Unemployed]12
[The Hate of Hans]13
[Hans Begins to Wonder]14
[Recruiting Appeals]
[Jack Canuck]18
[What Owest Thou]19
[A Call to the Colors]20
[Choose Ye]21
[The Slacker's Son]22
[Blasted Hopes]23
[Langemark]24
[The Canadian Army]25
[Fight or Pay]26
[Rhymes For Children]
[Hunting the Were-Wolf]30
[Johnnie's Grouch]31
[The Trench That Fritz Built]32
[Nursery Rhymes]
[Ten Little Slackers]34
[Jingles]35
[Miscellaneous]
[Bedlam]38
[The Certainties]39
[The Friendly Spies]40
[Jack Canuck to Uncle Sam]41
[Sammy]42
[France To Columbia]43
[Jim's Sacrifice]44
[The Orgy of Thor]45
[Motes and Beams]46
[Nurse Cavell]47
['Twas Ever Thus]48
[Ego]49
[Freedom]50
[Twenty Years After]50
[Faith]51
[Everybody Helping]52
[The World's Overdraft]53
[Slackers]54
[The Loyal Blacks]55
[The Troubles of Tino]56
[Has the World Gone Mad?]57
[The Trees]57
[Who Knows]58
[Afterwards]59
[German Securities Fall]60
[Trouble in the Trenches]61
[The Worshippers]62
[To Jean Baptiste]63
[The Lost Tribes]63
[Reliability]65
[The McLeans]65
[Farmer John Speaks]66
[When the Game Isn't Fair]67
[Heinie's Holler]68
[What We Won]69
[The Home Coming]69
[The Opinions of Fritz]
[Fritz Finds Fault]72
[Fritz Has Another Grouch]73
[The Kaiser Consults Fritz]74
[Fritz in the Hospital]75
[Fritz Philosophizes]76
[Fritz Writes to His Frau]77
[Katrina's Reply]78
[Fritz Writes Again]79
[Katrina Replies]80
[Fritz Learns About Canada]81
[Fritz Can't Furshtay]82
[Fritz Is Learning]83
[Fritz Hears from the Kaiser]84
[Fritz Advises the Kaiser]85
[Fritz Admits Ignorance]86
[Fritz on the English]87
[When Will It End]88
[The Kaiser Again Consults Fritz]89
[Fritz Warns The Kaiser]90
[Fritz Goes Farming]91

Transcriber's Notes:
"Wayfarer" is a pseudonym of Abner Cosens.
Left one instance of Alsace-Lorraine and one of Alsace-Loraine
Left one instance of out-classed and one of outclassed
Left one instance of saur-kraut and four of saurkraut
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