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A PARABLE OF REAL LIFE IN WAR TIMF.

and

While he was extensibly ergared cluded, and he found that the current on this task the little Derby Dog took The civilian theory concerning him and further stock of his, visitor.

that his concerning all soldier clerks, was that Derby Dog observed he was a coward and a slacker. His visitor was sporting a blue armlet, wife was permitted to live with him in public evidence, as it were, in the country town to solace his of the fact that he was not alto- Te little Derby Der sat in a hours of leisure, and to feed and gether fit. The visitor carried a draughty corrider hating Cod Helledge him. The sum allotted by His book in his hand, and the Derby Dog sat on a hard wooden bench, at an Majesty's Government for the upkeep saw that it was a volume of essays by unsteady wooden table-trestle, six and nourishment of both husband Michael Lord Montaigne. He look- feet, folding, cne-with military rand wife was called a Joint Subsised at the eyes again and saw that gisters and buff slips and medical tence Allowance and amounted to they were the eyes of a man who history sheets spread all around him. the sum of twenty shillings and five would care to read books! indeed. This Title Derby Dog was the least perce per week. On this sum the they were reading now, peering -heroic of his species, being that Derby Dog's wife was supposed to be through the window at the huddled pathetic creation of our "win the able to clothe herself, feed herself, red roofs of the county town war spirit, C3 clerk. Ee was and house herself, and to feed and searching them for fables.. small, fat, bald-headed, nervous man, house a hungry soldier in addition, The little Derby Dog had now filled of middle age, dressed in the 'onitoim

Now Come back again to in the warrant and he carried it down of the famous Upshire regiment, the point from which we the corridor to the group of pukka with which he had never served, and started. This soldier, our Derby officers and presented it to one of weighted down by a pair of enormous Dog, was sitting at his impossible desk, them for signature. This officer. hobnailed marching boots, in which in an impossible corridor, writing having asked for whom the privilege he had never marched.

impossible letters. The desk was warrant was required. and having The history of this unimportant impossible because it was an army had his attention directed to the Derby Dog was like that of about a desk table, trestle, six foot, folding, figure at the table, strolled up to the million others. When the undersized one: the corridor was impossible be figure and addressed a few words to and sedentary were first called for he cause it was a corridor, and the it. The other officers followed him, Irad gone het-foot to the attesting letters were impossible because they end a splendid effect they made in station, eager to demonstrate the were impossible. The usual sort of their smart, well-fitting uniforms, youth and ardour of his soul. He thing was simple. "Attached is shiny buttons, and rows of medalį had returned from the attesting passed to you for information and ribocu. station with a buff armlet, a printed recessary action please." But when These ribbons were the fruits of certificate, and half-a-crown, and he the machine became excited the warfare in distant and romantic sat up until late at night, with a Derby Dog would find himself writing places. There were ribbons from proud but unhappy wife, planning a such wonderful passages as this: Egypt, from China, from Asharti, | future of military distinction. This

Ref, your numbering K1C88 of and from Burma. Their owners "Derby Dog was a member of what is 13th November and attached enquiry, regarded the wreck at the table with

called the "professional classes, the correspondence is returned to you expressions of kindly tolerance. Ha was an architect, or author, or for completion under ACI 28363/16, something of that kind, and foresaw as in view of Fara. 5 of these instruc- that being more or less educated and tions your minute No. 8 is not under baving a decent professional reputa: stood in this cffice, please.” tion, scme creditable employment would be found for him in which be could use his talents and prove his courage. His forecast, however went singularly wrong.

They questioned him about his military experiences, and elicited, with difficulty, the information that he had had the misfortune" to be The little Derby Dog indited these knocked out during operations on epileptic dispatches with an air of the River Somme. Then the man at great industry, for he was fully the table, stuffing the Frivilege War- exposed to the view of three severe rant carelessly into a pocket, and drag theging his load of wood and iron, dragged Within a few weeks of his attesta looking cfficer-officers of tion he was called upon to endure regular army-pukka cfficers. They himself away. He clasped the baluster the most humiliating and indecent steed at the far end of the corridor, of the stairway with his competent left facing the Derby Dcg, and they were arm, having previously manipulated experience of his life that of a smoking Egyptian cigarettes with on the hecks and hinges of his right called medical examination." As a result of the inspection which he air of stern depleasure atd with that arm in such a manner that they then underwent, in company with expression of countenance, babitual would hold an open book in close some two hundred other raked men, with cficers of the regular army, proximity to his platinum face. which would suggest to the uninitiat Then, descending slowly, step by he found himself, to his contempte

ed that they had all just detected a step, he went down the stairway cus surprise, in a low medical

defective drain. These officers reading Montaigne. category. There then followed fur belonged really to the roem tehind ther humiliations. He was given half premise of employment, with commissioned tank, in a technical unit. Then this promise was with drawn. He was half promised a further medical examination. That)

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"A quaint chap that," said one of M them.

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think," suggested another.

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the door which faced the Derby Dog: the stairs leant over the balustrade The regular officers at the head of but they came cut into the corridor and watched the departure of their when they wanted to smeke, and as visitor with wonder and interest. they always wanted to smoke they were always in the corridor, looking" always very displeased, well-groomed, half premise was withdrawn. He and pukka. They were elderly men. "Yes, but a good chap, I should į was told that he was eligible for whom the war had resuscitated from enlistment in a-Latour Battalion, and the golf courses of Leamington, o that having enlisted he could then Clifton, or Bath. This is why they get his re-examination and look for higher things. He made a number looked so very pukka, for the golfer's of railway journeys and filled up a glare had reinforced the army stare. number of forms and then learnt Behind the Derby Dog, at the that he was not eligible for enlist-other end of the corridor, there was ment in a Labour Battalion. He was another door, but this deer was told that he was not eligible for en- closed for it belonged to the room listment in anything, but that he where the temporary officers dwelt, might at any moment teccme eligible and would then receive a fortnight's warning to present himself for service. What service?" he asked He was told that he would get that information wher-he got it!

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"Oh no," ascented both the other officers. "Not a pukkah soldiah." And the little Derby Dog at the wobbly table dropped a big, red blot on his AB/192, and hated God.-- and these cfficers, did not ever come A. Neil Lyons, in The Clarion. out of their room, for they were' busy men who worked extremely! hard and carefully in order to sustain the professional, réputation of the pukka officers. The little Derby The months which followed were Dog bad an affection for the tempor- months of unhappiness and anxiety ary officers. They were Englishmen for the Derty Dog, during which he like himself, and did not belong.to was neither a soldier, an architect, an international caste, like the puk por a man. Old ladies despised him kas. They went about their work. publicly in cmnibuses; clients with with an earnest self-detachment, and or hobbled (since some of held work, feeling that a, man so went, Hable to be called could not advan them added a permanent disablement tageously be chosen; and the army to their "temporary status) about On their pleasures in a simple way, bombarded him with papers. receivinghis papers,be would kiss his avoiding with remarkable cheerful- wife, lock up his cigars, pay off the Tess those places where the regular gardener, and go away-only to officers congregated. They seemed return by the 6.20! His papers, he to be quite indifferent to defects in would find, had been posted by the social drainage system, and on mistake. He was told that he was arriving of a morning would usually not wanted and that he must return nod to the Derby Dog and say

"Good morning, corporal." home. This happered about four times. But at last there came a There was an open stairway oni time when no cre could conveniently the corporal's left and a window at admit that it had happened, and this his right; so that this warrior-scribe time the Derby Dog did not come did not lack fresh air. Sometimes, indeed, when the street door at the home again.

This time he was sent to a posting foot of the stairs was open, he got! depot, where he learnt that he was fresh air to excess. A fierce, but to be ferthwith mobilised and dis- mercifully short-lived blizzard told patched by train to a county town, to him now that the door had been be a military clerk to a military opened. He looked down the stair- office. The resting station was in an way and saw approaching him several acute state of February, and the little pieces of a man.

Derby Dog became extremely cold as The pieces of man were ascending. he hopped atcat a parade ground the stairway very slowly. They had inches deep in snow, and present- a lot of dead weight to carry, such ed himself at various huts where as a wooden leg, a steel arm, a silver tools and over-coats, and knives and scalp, and aft artificial jaw. It looked forks, and button-sticks and hold-alle Hike some mechancal contrivance at were thrown in his face, He re-first sight, so few and scattered were members well the final hut, because the pieces of original being. But it happened to be locked; wherefore among the human fragments" which he had to wait in the snow for half remained were two dark and resolute an hour until an unwilling corporal eyes which proved that the figure now unlocked it in crder to complete the standing at the Derby Dog's table "issue" by supplying him with" a did not wholy consist of cabinet- ration of brown paper and string. work and ironmongery. Indeed, it A private soldier accompanied the spoke, though indistinctly, and thus Derby Dog on his journey from hut established further proof of its to but, and this soldier swore because humanity. The artificialjaw wagged the final hut was locked. So the up and down, and flat, staccato noises Derby Dog said to the goldier: "But issued from it, which the Derby Deg I don't want any brown paper! What had difficulty in decoding. is it for?"

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"To wrap up your civvies in," said

the soldier.

The bits of man before him were dressed in the uniform of a commis sioned cfficer, which circumstance added to the difficulties of the little

The immocent Derby Dog suggested that in that case it would be unneces- Derby Dog, since he had to stand to sary to wait for the paper, as he had attention whilst the officer's platinum brought a bag for his civilian clothes. face kept opening and shutting like But the soldier, white with emotion, a clockwork toy. At last the little flung out a detaining--band. "You Derby Dog was able to grasp what can't hop off like that, cocky," he his visitor required. He had toiled exclaimed. "You must get your up the stairs with his cabinet-work brown paper. Why you've signed, and ironmongery to ask for a "Pri for it!"

vilege Railway Warrant": "a voucher

So the Derby Dog waited and got which is issued to officers enabling his brown paper and a little tror them to travel by train at reduced chitis as we, and late that night he fares. The little Derby Doug saluted found himself wearing strange clothes. his vishor and reseated himself, ar in a strange town. There he lived the desk in order to make out the unhappily ever after. His work in warrant, as a preliminary to getting the military office began at 8 am. It signed by an officer.

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