I'll look down on London town, I'll look down on you.

Jack will hunt for U-boats and sink the beasts by scores;
Peggy'll have a perfect life, slamming carriage doors;
But I shall join the R.F.C. and Nurse herself will shout,
"There's Master Flight-Commander Jim has put them Huns to rout."

* * * * *

"A well-known Liverpool shipowner and philanthropist is giving
£70,000--£100 for each year of his life--to various charitable
and philanthropic objects."--_Scotsman_.

He might almost have lived in the time of the Patriarchs, but we
gather that he preferred the days of the profits.

* * * * *

"Often it was impossible to detect the existence of underground
works until their occupants opened fire. At one such spot a white
hag was displayed, and when our men charily approached a burst of
fire met them."--_East Anglian Daily Times_.

The enemy is evidently up to his old trick--taking cover behind women.

* * * * *

OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

(_BY MR. PUNCH'S STAFF OF LEARNED CLERKS._)