Cleveland County herald., 1918-11-07
CHAPTER XlIl-Continued.

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 Coming back along the same road we halted to let another convoy of mules go 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 "X' beach, and how they had to wade ashore through barbed wire. sAnd, you know" he said in q 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 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 I think that because the AnZacs did so well at Galllpoli people have not given enough credit to the British regulars and K. N. D.'s, who were there too, and did their share of the work. and did 1t as we'll as any men could.
 After a while this officer started on ais way again, and as he cut across fhe road a French officer came up. saused the French officer to stare at him q minute before he saluted. After the Englishman had passed him the F'renchman took a large French penny out of his pocket, screwed It 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, and so loud that Limey turned around and caught sight of the Frenchman. He started back toward him and I 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, Ssoo, for he pulled up very straight and stiff, but he left the penny in his eye. The Limey came up to him, halted q few paces off and, without saying a word, took the monocle out of his eye, twibbled 1t three or four feet in the air and caught 1t in his other eye when it came down.
 ~-Do that, you blighter," he said and faced about and was on his way down the road. They had it on the French man after that.
 This Philippe Pierre, of whom l have spoken, told me story abeut two Limey officers that I 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 l many times in New York.
 He said there were two Limey off, | about the German shells which the | Turks were using. One of the officers said they were no good because they | did not burst. Just about that time a shell came along and they picked themselves up quite distance from where they had been standing. An other shell whizzed by and landed flat on the side of the road. The officer walked over, dug it out of the ground, and took away the detonator and fuse 1 ito prove that they did not explode! |
 The only thing that would make me believe that story is that Philippe | Pierre said they were Limey officers. No one but a Limey would remem- ber such an argument after being knocked galley west by a shell con- cussion. I do not doubt that Limey would do it if it could be done, though.