Long afterwards, when they came to seek him, he was found asleep, a happy smile upon his face, and his weary head fallen forward amid the two-months-old newspapers of the dentist's waiting-room.
AN IMPERIAL OVERTURE.
[From notes taken by a British airman while engaged in hovering over the Kaiser's headquarters at ——. The name of the place is excised because the Press Bureau Authorities do not wish the Kaiser to be informed of his own whereabouts.]
Now let an awful silence hold the field,
And everybody else's mouth be sealed;
For lo! your Kaiser (sound the warning gong!)
Prepares to loose his clarion lips in song.
In time of War the poet gets his chance,