We enjoy the hard life all right because it’s full up with excitement,
and we are doing our little bit towards squaring off that big account
with the Germans. They’re not doing the fine things they promised
to do, and it must make them sick to think of their failure to wipe
out our army, for you can take it from me that they had their orders
direct from the Kaiser that the British force was to be punished at
any cost for daring to come over here without his orders. There’s been
punishment enough, God knows, but it hasn’t all been on the one side.
There’s many a German could tell of being punished for all he was
worth, and they won’t be in a hurry to deal out punishment to us again:
_Private E. Wood_.