"A month ago.... But it is nothing to us, eh? Let us eat our breakfasts." The Baron bowed grandly to me. "Monsieur le Délégue," he began in his smooth, formal voice, "once again we remind ourselves that it is thanks to you and the generous American people that we have bread. It is thanks to you that our noble Belgium is not starving.... Eh bien! Let us eat our breakfasts."
And so we did.
(Told in the Red Cross Magazine.)
GRIM HUMOR OF THE TRENCHES
As Seen by Patrick Corcoran, of the Royal Engineers
Patrick Corcoran, of the Royal Engineers, on leave in New York, gives a picture in which the monotony of slaughter is relieved by wagers among the men and pranks with a football as the charge begins. Told in the New York World.
I—AN IRISHMAN TELLS HIS TALE
"To the German soldier war is a serious business. To the Frenchman it is sublime devotion. To the Englishman it is bully sport."