ties when they come, and hunt them with the same merriment
that the French hunt the wild boar, the joke will be on them after
all, for they do not laugh back. And then they won't seem half so
bad. Laughter is a good insecticide.

We American soldiers in France are in for a big thing. Just how big it
is and how long it will last we do not know and no one can tell us. But
we are determined that America shall do her part and that we as
individuals shall do ours and be the best soldiers possible, and this is
some task when we remember how gallantly our Allies have fought. It will
be, in our own language, "some job," and for this reason we must use
every means within our power to accomplish it. So we must not forget
happiness as an asset to efficient soldiering. We will all smile where
the coward would whimper, and laugh where the weakling would whine, and
buckle down to what Robert Louis Stevenson called "The great task of
happiness."

[Cartoon: VOLUNTEER VIC'S BIG IDEA BY LEMEN IN THE
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH]

[THANK GOODNESS! IVE GOT ON MY STEEL HELMET THIS RAIN
WOULD GET MY FELT HAT ALL OUT OF SHAPE]

[GEE! THIS THING TURNS ALL THE WATER DOWN MY NECK]

[TIN-SMITH]

[DONT SEE WHY THEY DIDNT THINK ABOUT BUILDING A GUTTER ON
THESE BLAMED THINGS BEFORE]

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THERE'S A REASON.
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No more ham or eggs or grapefruit when the bugle blows for chow. No more
apple pie or dumplings, for we're in the army now; and they feed us
beans for breakfast, and at noon we have 'em, too; while at night they
fill our tummies with a good old army stew.

No more shirts of silk and linen. We all wear the O. D. stuff. No more
night shirts or pyjamas, for our pants are good enough. No more feather
ticks or pillows, but we're glad to thank the Lord we've got a cot and
blanket when we might just have a board.

For they feed us beans for breakfast, and at noon we have 'em, too;
while at night they fill our stomachs with a good old army stew. By, by
gum, we'll lick the kaiser when the sergeants teach us how, for, dad
burn it, he's the reason that we're in the army now!--Pittsburgh Post.

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A DOUGHBOY'S DICTIONARY.
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Camouflage--Wearing an overcoat to reveille