During an attack near Beer-Sheba, Palestine, our regiment had been
without water for over twenty-four hours. We were suffering very badly,
as the heat was intense. Most of us had swollen tongues and lips and
were hardly able to speak, but the company humorist, a Cockney, was
able to mutter, "Don't it make you mad to fink of the times you left
the barf tap running?"--_H. Owen (late Queen's Royal West Surrey
Regt.), 18 Edgwarebury Gardens, Edgware, Middlesex._