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Mr. Punch's History of the Great War
if this year the Channel had decided to swim Great Britain. A correspondent, in a list of improbable events on an "extraordinary day" at the front, gives as the culminating entry, "It did not rain on the day of the offensive."
C.O. (to sentry): "Do you know the Defence Scheme for this sector of the line, my man?"
Tommy: "Yes, sir."
C.O.: "Well, what is it, then?"
Tommy: "To stay 'ere an' fight like 'ell."
When Parliament is not sitting and trying to make us "sit up," and when war news is scant, old people at home sometimes fall into a mood of wistful reverie, and contrast the Germany they once knew with the Germany of to-day.
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