A Tommy in the Worce'sters named Private Ward Whitehouse; has had bothlegs amputated, and so cheery is he about it that he has been nick-named "The Legless Optimist," He regards the loss of his nether limbs most philosophically. "It's better than being blind/? he. says, "and no one can now pull my leg, and. I can't imitate Charlie Chaplin." \ Stated that the Queen of Portugal has undertaken toi furnish him with an artificial set of new pins.
At last in Germany the truth is leaking out that Britain didn't want to fight for fighting's sake. What the Germans are beginning to argue is this, "If, as the military party has assured us, England was plotting so long for the war, why was she unprepared?" And there are those who do say, when the so long bamboozled folk awake .to the whole truth and nothing but the truth, that there will be the devil to pay. '
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Free Lance, Volume XV, Issue 816, 18 February 1916, Page 5
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