The Southern herald., 1918-10-11
oHAPTER xIII-c0ntlnued.
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Coming back along the same road we
halted to let another convoy Of mules
30 past, and an officer Of the Royal
naval division came up and began
talking to our officers. He was telling
them how he and his men had landed
at 'rX'' beach, and how they had to
wade ashore through barbed wire.
sAnd, you know" he said In a sur
prised way, as If he himself could
hardly believe 1t, "the beggars were
actually firing on us| That Is just
like the Llmeys, though. Their idea
IS not to appear excited about any
thing at any time, but to act as though
they were playing Understanding
around on lawn with paddles in their
hands, half asleep. The Limeys are
Certainly cool under fire, though, and
Il think that because the Anzacs did
so well at GallipOll people have not
given enough credit to the British
Fegulars and r. N. DIS, who were
there too, and did their share Of the
work, and did 1t as well as any men
could.
After while this officer started on
his way again, and as he cut across
the road a French officer came up.
The Limey wore a monocle, which
caused the French officer to stare at
him q minute before he saluted. After
the Englishman had passed him the
Frenchman took a large French penny
out of his pocket, screwed 1t into his
eye and turned toward us so that we
could see 1t, but the Limey could not.
That was not the right thing to do,
especially before enlisted men, so our
officers did not laugh, but the men did,
I and so loud that Llmey turned around
and caught sight Of the Frenchman
He started back toward him and
thought sure there would be fight
or that, more likely, the Limey would
report him. Our officers should have
placed the Frenchman under arrest
at that.
The Frenchman expected trouble
too, for he pulled up very straight anc
stiff, but he left the penny in his eye
The Limey came up to him, halted g
few PAGES of and without saying
a word, took the monOcle out Of hi'
eye, twlbbled it three or four feet IL
the air and caught 1t In his other ey'
when it came down.
''Do that, you bllghter," he said ant
faced about and was on his way dow
the road. They had 1t on the French
man after that.
This Philippe Pierre, of whom
have spoken, told me story abou
two Limey officers that 1 hardly be
lieved, yet Philippe swore 1t was tn
truth. He had been in America befor
the war, and he said he had seen on
of the officers that the story is abOu
many times in New York,
He said there were two Limey Off
GERS going along the road argulnl
about the German shells which tn
Turks were using. One of the officer
said they were no good because the
did not burst. Just about that tim
q shell came along and they pickle
themselves up quite a distance froI
where they had been standing. All
other shell whizzed by and landed fla
on the side Of the road. The office
walked over dug it out Of the grounC
and took away the detonator and fus
to prove that they did not explode
The only thing that would max
me believe that story is that Phillip
Pierre said they were Limey officer
No one but a Llmey would remen
ber such an argument after bein
knocked galley west by shell cor
cusslon. do not doubt that Lime
would do It II 1t could be done, thougl