SERGEANT-MAJOR: "It's those painted grass screens, sir. The mules have
eaten them."]
[Illustration: THE INSEPARABLE
THE KAISER (to his people): "Do not listen to those who would sow
dissension between us. _I will never desert you_."]
The weather has been so persistently wet that it looks as if this year the
Channel had decided to swim Great Britain. A correspondent, in a list of
improbable events on an "extraordinary day" at the front, gives as the
culminating entry, "It did not rain on the day of the offensive."
[Illustration:
C.O. (to sentry): "Do you know the Defence Scheme for this sector of the
line, my man?"