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"Thae's only ship suet," said the
major. "We'll hike it off 'em in a
week."
"No," I said, "it's more than that
They're naturally fatter than their
fathers"
"Maybe. Their fathers worked
hard enough to give 'em good time,
but think it's the way our uniforms
are built. Our tunics are too short.
Our hats are no good for this job
either"
They wore the chin strap behind,
Harrow fashion, and the four dim
pies in the crown faithfully collect
ed the rain. The eyes under the
broad brims swept the street, taking
in everything, full of curiosity and
comparison, all mixed up with that
defensive mustn't give myself
away" attitude that you see on the
face Of a new boy at school. Our
own focks when they first piled in
from the dominions had something
of the same look, but, being at home,
lost it early.
While I watched an Australian,
evidently on leave, bore up the
street. He had been new boy three
thousand years ago, so with his ma
tional air of wrapping illimitab'e
, deserts around him he stood and re-
viewed them for while all by him.
self. The major had the situation
at a glance.
"Wen," he said, 'he's got the
right to. He's graduated"
That detachment wa> one minute
,, link of the chain that rattles through
Winchester day and night. They
pour in here from the ports, go to
camp, walk out for few days, then
with full packs depart. The slope
of High Street shows them continu-
ously in ascending and descending
columns like hay on mechanical car
riers. They are deadly quiet and
low-spoken, and as direct as their
ancestors.
They Know What
Their Work Is
They are here to help to kill the
Germans. They say it without any
heat. We have been four years
Fighting the enemy" and even now
our press talks like IN embarrassed
governess to an inquiring child, as
though dead Huns were found by
Gods grace beneath gooseberry
bushes.
I heard the story Of a regiment
that had recovered some of it's men
mutilated by the Hun. No detail
was slurred, and the tale ended:
''The Germans did that to frighten
US, sir"
"What happened next?" I asked.
The voice told me what had hap
pened, and it was not at all pleas
ant happening for the Hun. Yet
the same man, a minute afterward,
carefully used a watered-down eu-
rhemism for an elemental fact
which an Englishman, or, for that
matter, an English woman, would
have got at in one word. The Amer
leans were inclined this way a gen
GRAFTON ago, because even then they
were very generally educated by
women, and women's share in their
education has increased since. They
deliver themselves of whole sen
tences, through which one can al
most hear and see the keen, tense
uplifting" womankind who gave
the entirely virile sentiment it's fun
nily feminine cloak.
But Of all creatures the woman
taught man is quite the most un-
profitable to irritate or bully. In
addition to normal male wrath his
acquired 'delicacy is outraged and
he finds himself at white hot feud
with the system which makes such
things possible. Then he goes to
the limit and beyond, and is as i'm
pertinent as woman afterward.
Like woman, too, he cleans up
behind him with acids and disinfect-
ants.
This, as the boy said when he
showed up a list of the Kings OF
Israel for his English essay, is not
all my own idea. but arose long ago
out of a talk with that wise philos-
i, opher, Mark Twain.
Certain Americans from the
South who by the nature of
things could not have lain more
than a few days at Winchester