"How should I know?" I said. "Let's get the song and find out. Get them all, in fact."

"Do you think we ought to?" said Clarice.

"Yes, certainly," I said. "It's good for trade. My motto is 'Music as Usual during the War.'"


The Contractor's Touch.

From a label on a tin of Army jam:—

"DAMSON AND APPLE,
From Seville Oranges and Refined Sugar only."

Thus monotony is avoided.


"In standing at ease recruits will not carry the left leg twelve paces to the left, and balance the body on both legs equally."—Royal Magazine.