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THE BRITISH JOKE. THE ENGLISHMAN'S BRAND OF HUMOUR
RESPITE FROM THE TRENCHES,
„DIVISIONAL SPORTS IN A BARN.
These men," I said to the Colonel, glancing at the hundreds about us. while the cross-country runnors assembled by a windmill in Flanders, " I suppose have just
The following vivid account of a visit to the British first line treaclice at Hohen
The war may at least resuscitate the zollern Redoubt was written by: My lighted British joke, if it does nothing Joseph W. Grigg, the special correspondent of the New York World, who, as will be better for Gront Britain. This is the hope of one Englishman something of a hu- seen was under fire at what he terorist hard. Pelham Grenville Wade much-strafed part of the line house In America, way the bilerary come out
Keep your head down," has become as much part of trenol vernacular as Watch your step" has become associated with New York's subway. So I heeded the warning of my military escort as I fol- F'ORNGAFE lowed in his wake in the muddy trenches We were equipped with gas masks and (Ewinds,fresh to packages of field dressings.
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Digent, we often think that there was be few of these men," he said, “ wem something wrong with the Britisher's joke in the groat retreat, como were in the ad- and in this notion Mr Wodehouse encourvance, and all lately were in the ugly 65 A joke, says he should be salient. Where's Brown? he called to aniversal, and British jokes are not. In busy major, Has that young beggar Brown no humorist writes for turned up Ah-thers ho England, paper which is to be read, for example, by emerged from a barn in a scandalous part
business man and his chauff shorts and bearing a number fore Drop these two men, it is necessary aft on his singist. Brown had the long for him to write two different sorts of jokes thighs of a superior runner, and this being situation which and can devotion to the for two different publications in this the day of the Divisional Sports final lis inkes it so difficult for the Catone-was on about him Briton to
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Thess men find boom out of the salient no more than a week. All men who have man
the trenches of that part of the line
leak is though it were time, too. deserve, there is no doubt,
special honour. Troops just relieved from that place al- The earth there will not stand up when you dig new trenches. It is now, through constanz digging and shells and mines, like quickwund. And again, when digging, as me of the men about me en spoilt day
up. We came upon some old barbed wire the other day, and then a German trench, and then a German dugout with four men in it.”
KUALDE Shingh the periscope to extract a large witant20wever, is sharpening British explained, You are sure to turn things
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At this point, the German lino. separated from the British first line trench
writings of George Ade. en Ring- by about the width of my Piccadillyer, or Mister Dooley, og Montague Ghsened One man of the party was to be taken to
A beautiful example Unie point. Wa drew lots to ane, who would favourite brand of mout, acenght
of one Englishman's go and I was lucky and won. We were the same authority b
Happy the trenches at the Hohenzolero Heby Si Francis Burnand. This retale the doubt. Much was happening overhead. adventures of a well-intentioned Briton of
I was told to poer through a periscope.
ingularly irresilient intellect, and the There was a terrific Bang! which to only people who could enjoy it are the porarily dulled the chorus of the overhead who live the same leisurely life as its herts 12 nobe. My care rang. I paused keking The
softoning and giving elasticity to amount of earth from inside my collar, its humour. This is partly due to the shat My coat had been sprinkled with smal tering of class-prejudice, and partly to the pices of metal, The Tommy standing near-intellectual
and
emotional awakening for by enught by eye and grinned. He was which the war is
responsible As Mr. the epitome of the British fighting man a Wodehouse remarks, in th interview given he calmly stood there, clutching his rifle to the Philadelphia Tablic Ledger:— perhaps a bit tighter but with a quietly GROWING MORE ALERT humorous exprosion on his face.
There was another loud explosion, and still more ud and metal through the air A fair-haired Tony didn't oven take a cup of tea from his lips. The most intense face in that part of the trench was that of a soldier trying to pot a bothersome shiper brying
A TUG-OF-WAR
But now they welke out of it for a time, and this might have been Hampstead Heath. English hour has gradually been grow. The jollying was modified-except when a ing more alert The English humorist favourite was just about to win or lose an has been adopting a less patronsing otti-item, when the honour of a regiment de- tude toward his readers; he has credited mandeu loud justice; bat without natural. his readers with a certain mount of intelli- provocation one did not give tongue. Tom gence and has not considered it necessary the General was looking on. But tho to explain his jokes in detail on he a Goth was clean forgotten when a popa- to explain them,
Ja lieutenant breasted a steep slopes of You remember the old volumes of Funebriars, the end of four heavy miles scross. and Pierce Egan's hunting pictures. The country, with the case and grace of a point of every joke, however obvious, wasdeer; and when the tug-of-war jegin of na put in italics, so that it might not possibly Inh ivgiment walked away towing, their be missed. If the joke was about a child's opponents on their bucks in the mud. What bright retort, or something of the sont, there is a General then? One of ||K! would also be given, after the stalicised point of the joke, a phrase in parentheser showing the effect of the retort on the other character in the dialogue, "Consteran- tion of Mr. Brown, or Total collapse of Mr. Joas, op something like that;
This has been done away with in you
Though the men of this division had scen some of the worst of it, and had then but just emerged from horrors which, befores this war, would have been possible only in the delirium of a sok dream, yet they might havo been mistaken for men just arrived. The horror of this way will nover he under.
THE NARROW NO-MAN B · LAND; His Jurking place was pointed out to une through the periscope. The andbags in front of when he lay in wait were badly torn by British bullets. The very periscope through which I was looking on his bar and at the bodies which for month; had been i lying in "No Man's Land" been the trenches had been punctured by a sniper's bullet. It was hard to malize that across this narrow much of shell-torn soil, dotted with the dead, was the firg Eine German treach. But I was soon to realize it even more fully, for us we crawled back to reparatively recent years, certainly since stood except by those who have experien. join the others we were sprinkled with Mark Twain's grist vogue has been estabced it, it is no good writing os talking parte of a missile which nearly added to lished. It is not that English humour has about it, for it comes be translatel. the casualties.
begons less in need of explanation; what But, though, after the war, it will be al- has happened is that the English humourways unforgettable and even lively to the ists have learned to place more reliance on least jaginative of those who went through. their randers intelligence. And I think it, yet now, such is the resistance of human that Mark Twain is responsible for this..
stuff, the memory of it cannot darken a A typical example of Americau humour day of freedom to those who have bad auch in the eyeball story. The scene is a Wert of it and must have mode... So we trasped ern mining town. An Englishinar caters to a big basa base the boxing fimls. For the bar, where we carrying six-shooters the joy of this occasion, some had foregone are standing around taking and gulping down great slugs of clear, whisky. He day of their eave...
"Will you
We had got to another of the line when one of the members of the Gezurati boob family arrived near the top of the gandbags and lobbed a lepo piece of taud into a frying pan in which a soldier was psparing Home Necon. The culinary artist disgustedly put away a puper he had been reading and forked the place of und out of the pan and then resumed his reading.
Buddenly there was a great buzzing over
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Jake" he says, this gent wants an eye-
head.- Like a flock of bird: 28 British nemplanes were going over the German, liner to raid a concentration depot.
One puffball from an exploded shrapnel shell burst well in the middle of the flock. Then scores of these cottony blog bossomed ha against the blue sky. The tap, tap, tap of innumerable machine-guns was being
-- TYPICAL BRITISH JOKE. concentrated from the German lines on the Now that is an excellent story, and over invaders. Frite was endeavouring to for here it has a generah appeal. But in Eng a curtain of fire through which the airmen land it would be considered course and could nos pass, but they never wavered vulgar The typical British joke of the and bad disappeased jong before the small, best sort has to do with motor cars of puffy clouds had melted away butlers or bishops or week-ends
Through many avenues, all of them bear ing such well-known names as Bond Street, tha Strand, Regent Street, we worked our way back from the front lines. Even with the footboards funning along the bottom of the trenches there were stretchen where the chalky yellowish mud oozed throngh.
HOW TO KEEP ROCKS DRY.. "It is paradise compared to what it was best winter," said our french cecort. In some parts of the trenches further down the line. it is still borribly wet and sticky Those people who are always advising men
A QUESTION OF YAITH
This country is full of troops, but whera' they hide themselves laiver une guessing You get an iden of the mass of men and material here only when you cheer upon
I don't know what he wants it for
Jora division on the march. You will be lucky Butun out and catch a Chinese,
Then if your car is able to crawl for escapa to a gide turning, for the heavy_„_„imper- sonel flow of moving division Insta for hour, and has ng morey. It is not
our men are seen in ss 8 ) often, as in that huge French barn, that the sight of a great number of soldiers Lo gether in this way that the altitude of youthful upturned British faces was as if here was miraculously demonsmted what was, before but a question of faith
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I think the Old Subscribey innst be dying and try to do it theuselves. In some trun out. For geam he dominated the whole of ches & man would have to stand on his head English humorous writing. I first made to keep his socks dry of all.",
his acquaintance when I wrote a facetious The German she were still watching Whenever I wrote anything that struck me column on an evening paper in London. the wreckage of Vernelles. They had chang
od their area of fire size the morning o particularly good. it was deleted by the when we passed through. The shelling of censor or the ground that the Old Sub- the Loos bridge tower had stopped. Inscriber wouldn't like it
THE OLD SUBSCRIBER
The building was so huge that the tio beams and rafters were only more materiał shadows in the gloom above, where holes in the tiles made staylight. Outside the farm had limits; but insite on either hand one just caught the pinkish glow from faces, moving far away in a duck that seemed to be without bounds. We had a minstrel gallery. Looking up to the dis pincel ties there was a host of tags
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from a high Inft, and thus, whistled joyfully the usual sentimental and melancho Glengarries were in abundance; and thero song of the English. Scot, bonnets and
well as the A.S.C., who unde no doubt they Were Irish emblems But there were almo some weighty-lonking men of the guns, as were English all right, as their men in the fina's would presently show, if the bonnets would
were thrown wait. They home whapers from the bonnets, who ad- vised them (one eye on the General and his staff) what had happened in history to their erstwhile proud stomachs,
some
the morning we had watched the Germans That sort of thing was going on all over part of the Before us lay stretched a barge the country Ardent young men, bursting part of the battlefield of Loor Beside us to be as funny as they could,, were squelch were some of the ofhcen who had takened by thrig editors in the Interests of the part in this gigaulic battle, Suddenly Old Subscriber. The Old Subscriber was there came a Boom 1" and when the smoke suspicious of humour, He disliked it too
RETURN TO THE SALIENT. deared away it was soon that the top of new and fresh. He loathed high spirits. one of the fowers had been torn away. A
Midway was the rated ring, with its second report, sone dense black smoke, and The only sort of humour the Old Sub-opes and padded posts, a bright electric then we could see the mangled summit of soriber would permit was the work of a stay uver it and the great in red and gold the other lowered. When world-weary man with a secret sorrow, perched in state on its edge to see the French and Belgian As we moved along the came on ominous bugging to jest in order to hide his bleed game played well. cuttling through the air. Even shot ing heart. He liked that. But young men offers were there; and the padres, too, of apprenticeship under German fra gives a who whooped and ozuded humors through cour, to see their boys have a good
time, certain amount of knowledge of their direcheer joy of living he disliked as much a tion. We drew e oser to the lee of some he hated boys who shouted in the street out of a good man. When the seconds got out The shapeless khaki uniform maske, little partly destroyed. building Something side his window. whizzed past us and landed against a pile
It was the Old Subscriber who made the of the ring and the stripped figures Blood
of bricks and mortar not twenty-five feet difference between the humour of England up and moved about each other in confest, and the humour of America, which was theit was then that one felt with dismay that eway. BRAVE, BUT DIETY,
difference between a puppy with kind steel and fire should maim and kill such master and a puppy with a master who bodise. These keen but mock fights took bullies it The. American humorist went place without a sound. If a man went. down he did not hear the counting. Hu about his business rollickingly, sure of kind welcome. The English humorist was deprecating. He hoped he would not be kicked, but he was not betting on it. He generally was kicked,
I reflected over what sa American who is an officer in the British Army, told me during my visit to the trenches
“The German is a brave fighter, but a dirty one," was the way he expressed it, And don't forget it, the British sollien han & good rasny scores to pay off, and he
plea
to do it,'
I kesaly welcomed an opportunity to visit one of the most important British sexo-
drones behind the firing Lines I wanted BASTER THAN A POKKIR.
to talk with an airman who had run the gauntlet of German fire. I was successful
We came to a shed from which the fastest machine at the base was being taken. It in finding one at this has to could atsein the speed of a Fokker could
It was my good fortune to smash up base." he said. when 1
excond it, if necessary
What is the secret of the Fokker - inquited.
lust judge for himse and he counted ont if he were wrong. The boxers were not cheered, except at the end. The lithe form above us, feaping round each other beneath the only light in the barn, did so in a
pro found silence, as though they were alone. You may not give vent to your emotions in the Army but must discipling them. Only hundreds of eyes were responsive to very movement of their regiment's hope as he stepped it lively about an opponent
It was over, and the General rave the prizes. He made a little speech, ar Gene rals do, and announced what but few of
a German pressed
him "I had Pisky time of it bouto, bai the spot where I dropped the There is no scalo sure the oficer's the offie of them know that there and
but I was so eager to wreck Boche
The Germans have developed a soule them were to return to the depot, I quite forgot some of my own machine which has a great deal of speed. salient. "There will be some bigger fight dangere. The right moment caua and I They have taken as their model some of the ing," he said casually. The men took the let her go. I looked down to see what, Allied machines. Part of the British Press instruction that they were to return to the would happen. There was muffled ro
has developed the Fokker care, but we have place they know all about worse luck and a cloud of smoke and dust srose As known of this machine for a long time. It they had listened to the referee's decision. it cleared away I saw the success of my doesn't come over our lines. It is a high- They stopped their General with Hea lucky shot. I forgot where I was, jumped powered machine, used for defensive pura jolly good fellow till more day ight up, and shouted and wared my had and poses and can rie quickly. Don't be showed on the tiles. And since then I've hardly knew I was being fired at It was dehided by all this ill-advised clatter about learned that there are some I spoke to that 14.1.3. one of the keenest feeling of enjoyment Ia German machine which is afraid toe afternoon whom I shall not again
HEM. TomaAMSON:- have ever experiemood."
even our lines."