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CHAPTER xIII-Continued.

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Coming back along the same road we
halted to let another convoy of mules
20 past, and an officer of the Royal
naval division came up and began
ealking to our officers. He was telling
them how he and his men had landed
at tx" beach, and how they had to
wade ashore through barbed wire.
@And, you know" he said in a sur
prised way, as if he himself could
hardly believe it, "the beggarS were
actually firing on us!' That is just
like the Limeys, though. Their idea
rs not to appear excited about any
thing at any time, but to act as though
they were playing Understanding
around on a lawn with paddles in their
bands, half asleep. The Limeys are
certainly cool under fire, though, and
z think that because the Anzacs did
SO well at Gallipoli people have not
given enough credit to the British
regulars and R. N. DIS, who were
there too, and did their share of the
work, and did it as well as any men
could
d
his way again, and as he cut across
che road French officer came up.
The Limey wore a monocle, which
caused the French officer to stare at
him minute before he saluted. After
the Englishman had passed him the
Errenchman took large French penny
out of his pocket, screwed it into his
ord "a w
could see it, 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,
and so loud that Limey turned around
and caught sight of the Frenchman.
Me started back toward him and l
thought sure there would be a 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 and |
stiff, but he left the penny in his eye. |
The Limey came up to him, halted |
few PAGES off and, without saying |
a word, took the monocle out of his
eye, twibbled it three or four feet in
che air and caught it in his other eye I
when it came down.
~Do that, you blighter," he said and
faced about and was on his way down
Ehe road. They had it on the French
man after that.
This Philippe Pierre, of whom I
have spoken, told me a story about
two Limey officers that 1 hardly be-
Iieved, yet Philippe swore it was the
truth He had been in America before
the war, and he said he had seen one
Of the officers that the story Is about ,
many times in New York.
He said there were two Limey Off ,
GERS going along the road arguing ,
about the German shells which the
Turks were using. One of the officers
said they were no good because they ,
lid not burst. Just about that time ;
4 shell came along and they picked !
up quite a distance from
where they had been standing. An
,ther shell whizzed by and landed fiat
IN the side Of the road. The officer
walked over, dug it out of the ground,
Ind took away the detonator and fuse =
to prove that they did not explode [
The only thing that would make
ne believe that story is that Philippe
Pierre said they were Limey officers.
70 one but Limey would remem-
YER such an argument after being
,nocked galley west by shell con-
nssion. do not doubt that Limey
vould do 1t II it could be done, though.