notice.

SALVAGE.--To rescue unused property and make use of it. The word is also
used of the property rescued. Property salvaged in the presence of the
owner leads to trouble and is not done by an expert.

SOUVENIR.--Is generally used in the same sense as salvage but of small,
easily portable articles. Coal or firewood for instance, is salvaged at
night, but an electric torch would be souvenired.

STUNT.--A successful enterprise or undertaking usually involving
surprise. A large scale stunt lacks the latter and is termed a "push",
and the element of success is not essential.

TRENCHES.--Long narrow excavations in earth or chalk, sometimes filled
with mud containing soldiers, bits of soldiers, salvage and alleged
shelters.

WIND UP.--An aerated condition of mind due to apprehension as to what
may happen next, in some cases amounting to an incurable disease closely
allied to "cold feet."

ZERO.--A convenient way of expressing an indefinite time or date, i.e.,
will meet you at zero; call me at zero plus 30; or, to a debt collector,
pay day at zero.--_Aussie_, the Australian Soldiers' Magazine.

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OUR OWN HORSE MARINES.
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Horace Lovett, U. S. Marine Corps, on duty "somewhere over here," has
just been appointed a horseshoer of Marines with the rank of corporal.
In the same company Sergeant John Ochsner is stable sergeant and
Corporal Stanley A. Smith is saddler. No, you have guessed wrong. The
captain's name is not Jinks but Drum--Captain Drum of the horse and
other marines.

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HIS MORNING'S MAIL
IS 8,000 LETTERS
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Base Censor Reads Them
All, Including 600 Not
in English
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"Now, how the devil did he pick mine out of the pile?"

Shuddering, a young American in France gazed at the envelope before him,
addressed in his own handwriting, to be sure, but with its end cut open
and a stout sticker partially closing the cut. Stamped upon the face of
the envelope were the fatal words "Examined by Base Censor." And the
words, because of the gloom they brought the young man, were properly
framed within a deep black border.

It was this way: The young man in question had been carrying on, for
some time