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Tor one, Legs Eleven for eleven. 'CIckety-click" for sixty-six, or "Top or the house" meaning ninety.
 The game Is honest and quite en- Joyable. Sometimes you have fourteen numbers on your card covered and you are waiting for the fifteenth to be called. In an impIoring voice you call out, Come on, Watkins, chum, I'm sweating on 'Kelly's Eye"
 Watkins generally replies, "Well, keep out of draft, you'll catch cold"
 Another game is "Pontoon," played with cards; it is the same as our "Black Jack or %Twenty-ofe."
 A card game called "Brag" is also popular. Using a casino deck, the dealer deals each player three cards. It is similar to our poker, except for the fact that you only use three cards and cannot draw. The deck Is never shuflied until a man shows three of n kind or ''prile" as 1t Is called. The value of the hands are. high card, a pair, run, flush or three of a kind or "prlle." The limit is generally penny, so 1t Is hard to win fortune.
 The next In popularity Is card game called Nap" It is well named. Every time 1 played 1t went to sleep.
 Whist and solo whist are played by the highbrows of the company.
 When the gamblers tire of all other games they try Banker and Broker" !" 'ross In some shell-tossed field with tears m ils eyes as he reads the In- scriptiOn. Au1 little later perhaps bend over wc cunded man on a stretch CT, patting him on the head.
 More than once in hospital I have seen titled Red Cross nurse fetching and carrying for wounded soldier, perhaps the one who iii civil life de- livered the coal at her back door. To- day she does not shrink from lighting his flag or even washing his grimy body.
 Tommy admires Albert of Belgium be- cause he is not a pusher of men; he leads them. With him it's not a case of take that trench" it is "come on and we will take it"
 It is amusing to notice the different characteristics of the Irish, Scotch and English soldiers. The Irish and Scotch are very impetuous, especially when 1t comes to bayonet fighting, while the Englishman, though 0 trlfie slower, fhnnnnnhIp h .tc hA lc methodlcal and has the grip of bull dog on captured position. He Is slower to think that is the reason why he never knows when he is licked.
 Twenty minutes before going over the top the English Tommy will sit on the fire step and thoroughly examine the mechanism of his rifle to see that it Is In working order and will fire prop erly. After this examination he Is sat isfied and ready to meet the Boches.
 But the Irishman or Scotchman sits on the fire step, his rife with bayonet flxed between his knees, the butt of which perhaps is sinking Into the mud --the bolt couldn't be opened with team of horses 1t is so rusty-but he splits on his sleeve and slowly polishes his bayonet; when this Is done he also is ready to argue with Fritz.
 It is not necessary to mention the colonials (the Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders), the whole world knows what they have done for Eng land.
 The Australian and New Zealander is termed the "Anzac," taking the name from the first letters of their of ficial designation, Australian and New Zealand army corps.
 Tommy divides the German army into three classes according to their fighting abilities. They rank as fol lows: Prussians, Bavarians and Sax ons
 When up against n Prussian regi- ment 1t is case of keep your napper below the parapct and duck. 4 bang bang all the time and q war Is on. The Bavarians are little better, but the Saxons are fairly good sports and are willing occasionally to behave as gem tlemen and take 1t easy, but you can not trust any of them overlong.
 At one point of the line the trenches were about thlrty-two yards apart. This sounds horrible, but In fact 1t was easy, because neither side could shell the enemy's front-line trench for fear shells would drop Into their own. This eliminated artillery fire.
 In these trenches when up against the Prussians and Bavarians, Tommy had hot time of 1t, but when the Sax