Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-08
Headpece from the Canard Showing Soldiers
kake Fun of the Ters of

- oho"inS TOW the french Soldiers
lch Warfare and Exploding Shells.
'Landouillard Goes to the war.-Great
Muddy and Anti-Phlogstic Romance
Chapter lIl-How Gideon Arrived at the
Front.
(Contlnued.)
"sacre noml Those fellows are -inethe
wrong pew" he remarked
Without waiting further instructions he
seized rifle by the muzSle and made
catherine wheels In the direction OF tho
enemys trench.
1t was an epic fight
Before the Boches had time to load
their guns Gideon threw himself upon
them In the twinkling Of an eye and sent
several pointed helmets flying, and the
heads that went with them.
This energetic method of acting
brought Landouillard some consideration
The enemy threw half q dozen grenades
at him. to teach him to knock before
entering
In no way disconnected, our hero he
turned the compliment. Barrels, rifles.
Iron braces, tree trunks, all these things.
thrown with unerring aim, fell with
mathematical accuracy on the jaws OF tho
Boches.
When there was nothing more to throw
our hero paused and observed with evi.
dent satisfaction that success had
crowned his efforts. There remained in
Inc trench only minced bOdieB
The few survivors had shown the wis.
dom not to linger and were flying across
the country, shrieking:
"Das list der Teufel! Das list der
Teufel."
Landouillard, his exploit accomplished.
found himself more embarrassed by his
trench than If bushel OF Silesian fleas
had been confided to him
1 cannot hook 1t at the pawnshop,"
he reflected.
Greatly perplexed. he waited for in.
SEPARATION. smoking a catnip cigarette at
three sous bundle.
(To be continued in our nert tssue.J
There is. OF course. corner for
answers to correspondents Among them
is the following:
Won Buelow (Rome).-We cannot ad.
wise You how to make them like sauer.
kraut better than macaroni"
There Is plenty OF poetry IN the "Canard
foilu' some or It, serious and some OF It
not In the latter Is a little poem called
Ma Meusienne." a parody Of well-known
poem by Alfred de Musset The "Meusi.
enne Is read-headed GIRL who lives by
the River Mouse, where there has been
so much hghttng. and who has an aston.
lsh1ng capacity for enduring the horrors
OF war.
There Is more serious publication
calied the Echo des Tranchees," In which
some genuine comments on life in the
trenches are printed. There is a letter
from a reservist who has not vet had
chance OF smelling powder at close range
lie Is fretling over his uncongenial occu.
patton, and unbosoms himself to q com.
rade on the firing line in language ike
this:
Surely we are feeling the effects of tho
war all the time here at the rear We
oont get fresh fish more than twice a
week. The canteens no longer serve any
smiles, and we have to retire at o'clock
every night Such tyranny! / am attached
to military field office and am working
nara But oh, what a FUSS When the
troops at the front need anything we get
requisition. Perhaps we say in reply
that 1t cannot be met because 1t has not
been sent In on the regulation blank.
Then we are asked to forward some Of
those regulation blanks, and again we re.
ply that this latter demand will receive
no official attention on account Of not
having been made according to prescribed
regulations. Funny, isn't it, that they
could not have known that much7 So
EAU revoir, my dear boy. Pity me and
help me in Wishing the speediest possible
end to all this
From the friend on the firing line the
peevish bureau clerk received the follow.
ing comforting answer:
"Odr regiment is encamping in q Ntt1a
village and am quartered in a big barn.
filled with nice dry straw, providing ma
with mattress on which I sleep mar.
velously well. AS for the trenches. they
anord us ample protection against the
winged dynamite messengers which han.
pen to come our way or course, I admit
that existence could be better, but since
we cannot have everything we desire, we
have quit having any wishes or wants at
all This is the secret of wisdom. If you,
TOO, only knew what a spirit of freedom
rules out here! We thing no longer of
ittle cares OF home and business, and we
are spared all the petty annoyances which
are encountered in daily routine life We
nve from day to day a plain, free, re-
lnvenating existence. We sing and frolic
like youngsters.
so long. old man! Cheer up and see
things in the right light And if you have
IL dull where you are, come on out with
us and get refreshed"
Copies Of the trench newspapers are
comparatively scarce and are bought at
nigh prices by Frenchmen and others in
terested In the cause Of France.