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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



TH£ PI,ACE VDNDOME, PARIS 



The column was erected to the "Glory of the Grand Army by Napoleon the Great." 

 Bronze from 1,200 cannon taken from the enemy in the campaign of 1805 was used in the 

 spiral band, which depicts scenes of that campaign. Pulled down by the Communards, the 

 column was recast , from the old, molds and re-erected in 1875. 



usual "Good luck !" The blue-eyed one 

 begs me not to worry about him, for 

 "Fritzie hasn't made the shell marked 

 with his number" ; and the brown-eyed 

 one tells me not to worry about him, for 

 he's going to try to live up to the rules. 

 I know he means the rules of the Y. M. 

 C. A., which are : "Live clean ; be clean ; 

 fight clean ; play the game." 



We shake hands in true soldier fashion, 

 and I wince as the ring on my finger 

 presses into the flesh. 



The blue-eyed one lights a "Players" 

 and goes out whistling, "I know that 

 she'll be waiting, as she promised she 

 would do." 



But the brown-eyed one seems to be 

 thinking aloud, as I hear him say, "We 

 who are about to die, salute you." 



When I attempt to fill the cups of three 

 new ones, I am stopped by an imperious 

 gesture and a sharp command to bring 

 "three whiskies, quick." 



"Oh !" I say, trying not to laugh, "we 

 only serve tea here, you know." And to 

 a most indignant, "Talk about your rotten 

 places," they stagger out. 



A SUBMARINE SURVIVOR S FIRST SPEECH 



A white-faced, delicate boy in civilian 

 clothes, with a handkerchief around his 

 neck in place of a collar, his ill-fitting 

 coat much too small, and his painfully 

 new shoes squeaking as he walks to the 

 center of the room, begins to speak: 



"Hi in't never mide no speech before. 

 Hi in't," he commences in truest Cock- 

 ney accent. "But hi hintend to mike one 

 now, hi do. Hi and me mites was sub- 

 marined the other dy. It's the fyshion 

 to be submarined nowadays; so you see 

 we hare very fashionable. Ha, ha ! We 

 swimmed a good piece, we did. We got 

 picked up off the coast o' Barcelona, 

 where we wuz took in by kind people. 

 The consul give us these nice clothes to 

 wear. 'E was a good cove, 'e wuz. 'E 

 give us our train fare tom'ere; and I 

 want to say that I never was treated bet- 

 ter nowhere than I been treated right 'ere 

 in this 'ere place, and I want to give three 

 cheers for the ladies in Blighty, and — 

 and — well — Gawd sive the King!" 



I know it is getting late, for the "reg- 



