your tail feathers?"
GERMAN EAGLE: "Can you bear the truth, Sire?"
KAISER: "If it's not for publication."
GERMAN EAGLE: "It's like this, then. You told me the British lion was
contemptible. Well--he wasn't!"]
What Punch Thinks Is Awaiting the Kaiser
[Illustration: (_From Punch, London._)]
The Man Behind the Kaiser
[Illustration: (_From the Bystander, London._)]
Nothing Doing
[Illustration: (_From Punch, London._)
IMPERIAL DACHSHUND: "Here I've been sitting up and doing tricks for
the best part of seven weeks, and you take no more notice of me than
if--"
UNCLE SAM: "Cut it out!"]
As Between Friends
[Illustration: (_From Punch, London._)
BRITISH LION: "Please don't look at me like that, Sam. _You_'re not
the eagle I'm up against."]
Kultur
[Illustration: (_From The Sketch, London._)
Making the German Officers' Mess a Success.]
Homers
[Illustration: (_From The Sketch, London._)
THE POLICEMAN: "What have you got there? Pigeons?"
THE ENGLISHMAN (_naturalized_): "No; they vos singing-birds."
THE POLICEMAN: "What song do they sing?"
THE ENGLISHMAN (_naturalized_): "Home, sveet home."]
The New Year's Present That We Are Wishing For
[Illustration: (_From La Vie Parisienne, Paris._)
A Million English Soldiers to Help Us Drive the Germans from France
and Belgium.]
"His" Christmas Sabots
[Illustration: (_From La Vie Parisienne, Paris._)
(The conspicuous place taken by children's stockings at Christmas time
in English-speaking countries is usurped by the youngsters' shoes in
France.)]
"Sire, Your Soup's Getting Cold"
[Illustration: (_From La Vie Parisienne, Paris._)
How about that famous dinner that the Kaiser ordered in one of the big
Paris hotels! Isn't the bill of fare a trifle out of season by this
time?]
Chaffing the French Censor
(_From La Vie Parisienne, Paris._)
[Illustration: "At the same instant, happily, a furious gallop
resounded along the road from ----, and, full of joy, our Colonel
cried: 'They are the ----.' They were, as a matter of fact, the
----."]
[Illustration: "Despite this reinforcement, it was hot work. Capt.
---- of the ---- Company of the ---- Regiment especially distinguished
himself, leading his men in an irresistible charge. We lost ---- men,
but the enemy left ---- dead in the ruins of the village of ----."]
[Illustration: "At the end of the ---- ---- victor
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