A Hun sentry, waking with a start, sounded the gas alarm. It was taken
up all along the German line and overheard by a vigilant British
sentry, who promptly set himself to make all possible noise with every
possible means.

Old French ladies in villages twenty miles back from the line lay
all that night hideous in respirators. Anxious Staffs rang up other
anxious Staffs. Gunners questioned the infantry. The infantry desired
information from the gunners. All along the line the private soldier
was jolted from that kind of trance which he calls "getting down to
it," and was bidden to stand to till morning.

And our Mr. St. John, who was a new and superfluous officer and liable
to be overlooked, slept through it all with a fat smile.
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It was after that that they made him a Town-Major.

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OUR PAMPERED "CONCHIES."

"There was a long and interesting debate on the imprisonment of
conscientious objectors in the House of Lords."--_The Times_.

This beats Donington Hall to a frazzle.

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"Teachers will welcome the resolution deploring 'the omission
from the Bill of any limitation upon the size of