"DEARIE ME, NOW, I SHOULDN'T HA' THOUGHT THEY GIVES YOU ENOUGH MONEY IN THE ARMY TO FILL ALL THEM THERE LITTLE PURSES."


PATROLS.

The Scout Officer soliloquises:—

The lights begin to leap along the lines,

Leap up and hang and swoop and sputter out;

A bullet hits a wiring-post and whines;

I wish to Heaven that I was not a Scout!