uits who should be fit for A1 as soon as
trained. 3--Men who have previously served with an expeditionary
force who should be fit for L1 as soon as 'hardened.'"--_Scots
Paper_.

They must be well worth it, even in a soft state.

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MORE WAR ECONOMY.

"BUTCHER.--Wanted, Second Hand."--_Manchester Evening News_.

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"Southport. Mrs. ----, Homely Apts.; sea view; piano:
mod."--_Daily Paper_.

We approve Mrs. ----'s candour about the piano, which accords with our
own experience in seaside boarding-houses.

* * * * *

"Germany recently began calling up Class 19120."--_Western Mail_.

The end of the War may be in sight, but it still seems to be some
distance off.

* * * * *

"In districts where a number of shops were serving the same people
and streets, they would be asked to co-operate so that butcher,
baker and grocer would use the same vans. Traders who refused to
comply with the scheme would be dealt with."--_Evening Paper_.

But surely such unpatriotic shopkeepers should not be dealt with.

* * * * *

"Lost, on or about September 30 last, a Gold Bar Brooch, with
chaste Scotch terrier in centre."--_Manchester Evening News_.

We are glad to see that at least one of our dumb friends has not
been affected by the wave of bigamy that has been sweeping over the
country.

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[Illustration: _Old hand_ (_supplying desired information to new
arrival_). "THOSE THINGS UP THERE? OH, THEY'RE CANTEENS FOR THE
R.F.C."]

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THE HUT.

As ordered, we marched the Battery to B 35d 45.25. Reader, have you
ever lived in, or on, an unfurnished map-reference in Flanders? If
not, permit me to inform you that this group of letters and numerals
represented a mud-flat pocked with ancient shell-craters, through
which loafed an unwholesome stream under a bilious-looking sky. The
Junior Subaltern, fresh from home, asked where the billets were. We
could but bless his happy innocence and remind him that as Army Field
Artillery we were nobody's children, the orphan bravoes of the Western
Front, and that for us a bunch of map co-ordinates was considered
ample provision.

The horses, having with proper pride sneered at the stream, we