"Not arf! Wot was you a-doin' of in London? Witin' tible at Sam Isaac's fish-shop?"

The rising of the mists put an end to these conversations. Sometimes they were concluded earlier with bursts of rifle and machine-gun fire. "All right to be friendly," Tommy would say, "but we got to let 'em know this ain't no love-feast."

[ CHAPTER VIII ]

UNDER COVER

I. UNSEEN FORCES

"We come acrost the Channel

For to wallop Germany;

But they 'aven't got no soldiers—

Not that any one can see.

They plug us with their rifles