ccasional personal
peculiarities in his style, deviations in unessential things from the
common form, give a close personal touch to his message. This is my
friend's letter:

"DEAR FRIEND--

"It is with Great pleasure for to answer your post Card that i received
this morning i was very pleased to receive it and to know that you are
still in the land of the Living i have often thought about you and as i
had not seen you i thought you had Gone home i have shown the Card to
Jenkens and the tall one and also a nother Policeman you know and they
all wish me to Remember them Verry kindly to you they was surprised to
think you had taken the trouble to write to me they said he is a Good
old sort not forgetting the little drops we had at the six bells and
Kings Head.

"P. H. What do you think of this terrable war it is shocking i have
just Got the news that a cousin of mine is wounded and he is at Clacton
on sea he is a Sergt in the 1th Coldstreams Gds got a wife and 4
Children i have been on the sick list this Last 17 days suffering from
Rumitism but i am better London is very quiet Especially at Night the
Pubs Close at 11 m. and half the Lights in the streets are out surch
Lights flashing all round 2 on hyde Park Corner 2 Lambert Bridge 2 War
office dear Friend i hope i shall have the Pleasure to receive a Letter
from you before long Now i think that this is all i have to say at
present so will close with my best respects to you your

"Sincere friend
"WILLIAM CHARLES BUCKINGTON."

The letter which later I sent him was returned to me by the Post
Office. And that is all that I know of my friend, man of ardent nature
and gentle feeling, lover of flowers, London policeman, gone, perhaps,
to the wars. Cheyne Walk would not be Cheyne Walk again to me without
him.

XVI

HELP WANTED--MALE, FEMALE

The people who (because they think they don't need to) do not read the
"Help Wanted" "ads" in the newspapers really ought to do this, anyway for
a week or so in every year. They are the people, above all others, that
would be most benefited by this department of journalism.

Now, there is nobody who more than myself objects in his spirit to the
very common practice of this one's saying to that one that he, or she,
"ought to" do this or that thing. Nobody knows all the circumstances in
which another is placed. Some people insist upon saying "under the
circumstances." But that is wrong. One is surrounded by ci