500 of the Best Cockney War Stories. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ His Chance to Dive

       Wot Abaht Wot?

       Water on the Watch

       A Gallant Tar

       A Cap for Jerry

       Give 'im 'is Trumpet Back

       Getting the Range

       Coco-nut Shies

       "Any more for the 'Skylark'?"

       Still High and Dry

       Trunkey Turk's Sarcasm

       Running Down the Market

       Five to One against the "Tinfish"

       A Queer Porpoise

       "Hoctopus" with One Arm

       Interrupted Duel

       Enter Dr. Crippen

       The All-seeing Eye

       The Submarine's Gamps

       Polishing up his German

       5. HERE AND THERE

       Answered

       A Prisoner has the Last Laugh

       Not Yet Introduced

       On the Art of Conversation

       Down Hornsey Way

       "... Wouldn't Come Off"

       When In Greece...?

       The Chef Drops a Brick

       His "Read" Letter Day

       Dan, the Dandy Detective

       The Apology

       Too Scraggy

       So Why Worry?

       Commended by the Kaiser

       Only Fog Signals

       An American's Hustle

       Truth about Parachutes

       The Linguist

       Billiards isn't all Cannons

       Run?—Not Likely

       At "The Bow Bells" Concert

       A Bomb and a Pillow

       Athletics in the Khyber Pass

       Jack and his Jack Johnsons

       Even Davy Jones Protested

       "Parti? Don't blame 'im!"

SIR IAN HAMILTON'S STORY

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      The Great War was a matrix wherein many anecdotes have sprouted. They are short-lived plants—fragile as mushrooms—none too easy to extricate either, embedded as they are in the mass.

      To dig out the character of a General even from the plans of his General Staff is difficult; how much more difficult to dig out the adventures of Number 1000 Private Thomas Atkins from those of the other 999 who went "like one man" with him over the top? In the side-shows there was more scope for the individual СКАЧАТЬ