An officer with our lot was a regular dare-devil. He always boasted
that the German bullet had not yet been made which could find him.
One day, regardless of his own safety, he was on the parapet, and
though many shots came over he seemed to bear a charmed life.
One of the men happened to put his head just out of the trench when a
bullet immediately struck his "tin hat" sending him backwards into the
trench.
The officer, from the parapet, looked down and said, "You _are_ a
fool, I told you not to show yourself."--_A. Smith (Cameronians), 40
Whitechapel Road, E.1._