... they've bought with the profits. With love, yours ever, Blanche OLD BILL TAKES A LITTLE REFRESHMENT This remarkable photograph shows Captain Bairnsfather's most popular creation, Old Bill, as a real life Fragment ...

... The {Bystander in Occupation BY OUR COLOGNE CORRESPONDENT OLD BILL was demobilising one day last week and finished up an evening's very natural celebration in a cafe in the Hohenzollern Ring. To his great annoyance, an aggressive-looking civilian, with ...

... watch the different phases of fortune in the Salle de Baccarat. A worthy merchant of industry, own brother, I am sure, to Old Bill, played a week or two back for small stakes at a small table. Now he runs banks at baccarat, and it takes a whole boxful ...

... that Georges Prude, my old friend and brother journalist, who is the organiser, as in previous years, of the Monaco meeting, will be in better health than he has been lately so that he can enjoy its triumph. Old Hy. THE OLD BILL MOTOR MASCOT This mascot ...

... done for the art of dining de luxe what Andrea Fouquieres did for the cotillion, what Rolls-Royce did for the car, and what Old Bill did for the Army. There's just a thrill, uncontrollable, exqui site a touch of home and beauty flushes over one when Vesta ...

... The old boy, of whatever public school, is stamped by his habits. He pokes about the old place, spots the least significant alteration in structure, if it be merely the case of a new doorway, and asks innumerable questions. But the mantle of old boy ...

... has now become, if possible, even more famous than ever before as the Editor of Fragments.'' Inset is a picture of the Old Bill mascot *Cmade in aluminium, which adorns the radiator of his car THE LONDON-PARIS-BRUSSELS AIR SERVICE Was recently inaugurated ...

... lessened cost, too. But these are funny days, my masters, and jesters have so many competitors in every walk of life that old Bill Shakespeare just about hit the mark when he wrote all the world's a stage, as there is a horrible sense of mumming about ...

... magnificent, true story has been sent to Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, and the captain has given me permission to use it. A regular Old Bill, an elderly worker in an Ordnance factory, was walking along with some sort of imple ment casually slung over his right ...

... The Passing Hour War-time Comments and Asides By A. G. Macdonell So another B.E.F. is in France and the old wheel is turning steadily in the same old groove. Soon will come letters from Somewhere in France, with S.W.A.K. underneath the flap of the envelope ...

... interchange of chaff, and to see burly V.C.s of the Old Bill type resist- ing (and sometimes, perhaps, not re sisting) invitations from well-inten tioned strangers to have a pint before -n*. you go over the top, old man, caused the curtain to rise a good twenty ...

... nime of Bill Gawber immortalised Nobody. Nobody cares for pore ole Bill. The Dumb Friends League don't do nothin' for 'im. Don't .even stand me a muzzle for Mrs. Gawber. Underground Roads Itell yer, Clarence, they don't care 'ow soon pore old Bill goes ...