: The War Stories of Private Thomas Atkins by Milne James - World War 1914-1918 Anecdotes

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"BLOW! BUGLES, BLOW!" 5

I MARCHING TO WAR 9

II THINGS BY THE WAY 14

V CAMPAIGNING IN GENERAL 32

VI BATTLES IN BEING 41

X HIT AND MISSED 92

XX SUMMING IT UP 186

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

"BLOW! BUGLES, BLOW!"

ROBERT BROWNING.

You like song, dear Private Atkins, its lilt and its sentiment, and you have been singing your way through battle, on the hills of France and the plains of Belgium. You are really a poet, as well as a first-rate fighting man, though the very idea will make your camp-fire rock with laughter. Well, in your letters from the war to the old folk and the young folk at home, you have written things worthy to be bound in cloth of gold.

You have, in particular, being a natural fellow, written yourself to them, and you are just splendid, singly and collectively. You look out from your epistles with a smile on your lips, humour in one eye and a touch of the devil in the other, and you cry, "Are we downhearted?" "No!" gladly answer we, who have been listening to the news of battle ringing down the street, and for a moment, perhaps, forgetting you and your writing on the wall with the bayonet point.

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