Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-21
THE CHAFFINC DISH
How We Brought the Bad News
From Ghent to AK
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From Ghent to AK
BY Hindenburs
T SPRANG to the tonneau, and Ludy
and He +.
Bill put on the gas and we hustled all
three;
The tanks were behind us and getting
near Ghent-
1t was high time for going, and Gott
knows-wc went!
We stopped for no blow outs, we put on
no brakes;
The one thing that mattered was get
ting to AK!
THROUGH Brussels we hustled with
= side-slip and skid
The Belgans were flying their flags they
had hid.
Bill cursed as he saw the stripes, black,
yellow, red,
But Better not stop to remove them"
| said
"For this is no time to make fatal mis-
takes;
We'd better get over the frontier at
AK"
TNHE rumble Of tanks was still plain in
the rear;
Bert's cavalry galloped, unpleasant to
hear;
On the coast, British naval guns grum-
bled and slammed;
Old Ludy looked greenish, Bill muttered
and damned.
We opened the throttle; for all of our
We thought it was wisest to get on to
AK.
FOR three elderly men, that was pretty
rough stuff;
placid retirement is all we'll enough,
But when peasants lie out behind hedges
and snipe
At the General Staff-it's a bit over
ripe!
And Bill, Ludy and had bad case of
shakes
Until we got over the frontier at AK.
Germany was said to have ceased muir
derlng noncombatants, pending an armis.
tce' but If the Berlin Socialists have taken
TO singing the "Marseillaise" dowli Inter
den Linden many and many a stretchcr
will be needed for disabled and mangled
French syllables The German Gott is a
cultural Gott, cruel to the last.
we used TO believe that the color of to-
bacco ashes was a good hue for a suit of
clothes. so that we could drop cinders on
1t from our pipe without fear Of detection
by our superior officer at home; but until
the safety match heads are provided with
parachutes we think asbesto. will be a
better fabric for smokers
The clocks are to be pu,hed I'D again
next Sunday. Does that also apply to
hosiery?
1t is terrible thing to contemplate
suppose that the bartenders' serving and
| mixing muscles should atrophy during
their long leave of absence.
The curious tottering gait that you will
observe in the movement of some of our
citizens is due TO the unaccustomed disuse
of the brass-rail muscles in their legs.
II they must choose a Sunday for turn.
ing the clocks back again, we> hone the
deed won't be done just as the minister is
winding up his sermon.
To the German Emperor and All His Clan
Nov that avenging armies
Hurl back your shattered lines
You lift your cheating proffers
And tune your subtle whlncs;
The fail is raised to smite Won
And now before its fall
You would avert the whplash
In fate's stern judgment hall
ACROSS the fields of Belgium
"A You leave the spoor OF hell
We trace the Beast retreating
And mark his actions well;
You launch a rain of shrapnel
At wounded men In boats
The while you cry us "Comrade"
With blackily perjured throats.
NTE HAVE been stern and patient.
w We have withheld our hand
In that frm-lipped appraisement
You do not understand
Now you shall have our answer
In storm of beching shell:
mo covenant with devils.
No compromise with hell"
PVT. WILLARD WATTiEs.
The Dutch newspapers have an ingen
ious way of dealing with uncertainties