“A clergyman recently gave a lecture on ‘Fools’ at the ‘hut’ back of our station,” writes a boy from the Somme. “The tickets of admission were inscribed, ‘Lecture on Fools. Admit one.’ There was a large audience.”
And from Calais comes this:
“You will note with interest and tell the shirkers they’re missing something here. The ‘G’ came off the big sign east of the station here and we now read: ‘The only English love makers in the city.’”
ONE OF THOSE IRISH BULLS
The recruit from Ireland spent his leave in England. Asked on his return to the front what he thought of the place, he said:
“Faith, London is a great city; but it’s no place for a poor man unless he has plenty of money.”
WHEN GERMANY SALUTED A PIG
A Belgian farmer saved his bacon in an unusual way. He heard that the Germans were coming, so he killed and dressed his one pig, cleaned it, put it into his bed with only a part of the underface exposed, and put a lighted candle at each side of the bed. When the Germans arrived an officer entered the house, went into the room, saw what he believed to be a member of the family laid out for burial, saluted and went out!
AND SO IT PROVED
Arthur Train, the novelist, put down a German newspaper at the Century Club, in New York, with an impatient grunt.