... saddest of reasons, can speak to-day from my heart. Jingle GERALD DU MAURIER As James Lane Fountain in The Old Country V s ARTHUR BOURCHIER Aa Old Bill in Captain Bairnsfather's Better 'Ule ALFRED LESTER In Round The Map VIOLET VANBRUGH As Georgina in Mrs ...

... number covers that exhilarating period of success which immediately preceded the Armistice, and towards the end of the book Old Bill, Alf, and Bert begin, as it were, to toy gently with the idea .of demobilisation, though I fancy that in practice the three ...

... us. I'm sure that when Captain Bairnsfather first sent Old Bill on his wanderings through rejoicing armies and an applauding world he never thought that one day a padrd would say this of him Old Bill symbolises what the men like to see in others and want ...

... ankle is now no longer a thing of silly mystery. It is just something a lady uses when she walks 1 Old Bill Dark Dorse He was always a dark horse, Old Bill, and he still is, in whichever department of life you find him or his spirit. Whether it be in mud- ...

... a great joy when he resurrected Old Bill and put him first into the Pioneer Corps in France and then into the Home Guard in this country. Whatever happens to weekly journals in time of war, nothing can ever kill Old Bill. He is the spirit incarnate of ...

... Aubrey and I call him Eugene. Could the bonds between us be more- closely welded, I ask you Yours ever. Jack Johnson AN OLD BILL PROPHECY COME TRUE These women ambulance drivers in France are not doing any the less good work because they have discarded ...

... the costs of the trial, and they won't be any too light The Never-too-Old Bill Ihave received a copy of the first issue of Frag ments, and hasten most heartily to congratulate Old Bill on having so successfully achieved his ambition to produce a paper which ...

... Tank could not take us any further. Only George Sleigh could climb the narrow road to Mont d Arbois. We pulled our white Old Bill caps over our ears. Great snowflakes, like butter flies, settled on our noses. Hue said George Sleighdriver to his steeds ...

... Bruce Bairnsfather first tapped that inex haustible fount of humour which sprang from the sea of horrors which was the Front. Old Bill, he of the Walrus moustache, Alf- and Bert soon became as famous in their own way as the greatest general in the field, and ...

... opened on February 5 an exhibition of the original Bairns father drawings and a very fine array of them there will be. Old Bill, Alf, and Bert and the rest will all be there in their innumerable settings. It is a show that no one should fail to see ...

... preserved and illustrated by soldier- poets and artists in the periodicals and Press of the day (who does not know and love Old Bill and the heroes of Ian Hay a feeling difficult to express but by the gifted few, is the feeling of homage and gratitude to ...

... the lone and level sands stretched far away Wouldn't it be terrible if France lost all this to Italy he was saying. But Old Bill, heir to a vast apd fruitful Empire, can aiford to be ironic about bits of desert. Mussolini, ruler of a mere million square ...