AN ENTENTE.

AS we were running the Channel along, with a rising wind abeam,

Steering home from an escort trip as fast as she could steam,

I'd just come up, relieving Bill, to look for Fritz again,

When I turns to the Skipper an', "Sir," I says, "I 'ears an aeroplane."

An' sure enough, from out o' the clouds astern, we seed 'im come,

An' down the wind the engine sang with a reg'lar oarin' 'um.

The Skipper 'e puts 'is glasses down, an' smilin' says to me,

"We needn't be pointin' guns at 'im—'e's one o' the R.F.C.