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KAISER: "If it's not for publication."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