Canada in War-Paint (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...he had found a real stove with an oven. " I cannot understand," said the Major, " how it is no one is in this place. It's good enough for a Divisional Commander." There was actually a bath in the place with water running in the taps. Jones, always something of a pessimist, shook his head when he saw the bath. " Look here, all you boys," he said, " this is no place for us. There is an unwritten law in this outfit that no man, unless he wears red and gold things plastered all over his person, shall have more than one bath in one month. Now / had one three weeks ago, and I am still but why dwell on it? " Needless to say he was ruled out of order. Just to show our darned independence, we decided to invite most of the other officers of the battalion to dinner that evening, " plenty much swank " and all that kind of thing. Would that we had thought better of it. Of course we eventually decided to make a real banquet of it, appointed a regular mess committee, went and saw the Paymaster, and sent orderlies dashing madly forth to buy up all the liqueurs, Scotch, soda, and other potations that make glad the heart of man. We arranged for a four-course dinner, paraded the batmen and distributed back-sheesh and forcible addresses on the subjects of table-laying and how to balance the soup and unplop the bubbly. Nobody came near us at all. As far as the Town-Major was concerned we might have been in Kamtchatka. The Major had gone to the C.O. (after lunch) and told him we had " found a little place to shelter in," and as the latter had written a particularly biting, satirical, not to say hectic note to the Brigadier on the subject of the Town-Major's villainy, and was therefore feeling better, he just told the Major to carry on, and did not worry about us in...