A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . - Bobby, a French officers adopted fox- riO¥ . lo Husband »^^ A CAELSRXIHE PLAY-BILL. terrier, which I had to keep at bay with mydouble-barrelled cardboard blunderbuss. Emerging from the hall within a fewminutes of roll-call and with our faces maskedby the vigorous of our brigandage HOW HE LIED 73 under the greenwood tree, we discoveredto our dismay that the water supply had beencut off. For daj s afterwards my knees hada brownness unknown to them since I dis-carded the Black Watch k
A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . - Bobby, a French officers adopted fox- riO¥ . lo Husband »^^ A CAELSRXIHE PLAY-BILL. terrier, which I had to keep at bay with mydouble-barrelled cardboard blunderbuss. Emerging from the hall within a fewminutes of roll-call and with our faces maskedby the vigorous of our brigandage HOW HE LIED 73 under the greenwood tree, we discoveredto our dismay that the water supply had beencut off. For daj s afterwards my knees hada brownness unknown to them since I dis-carded the Black Watch POSTER FOE A FRENCH PLAY. A ver}^ creditable performance was givenA Bernard Shaws one-act play, How HeLied to Her Husband ; Oscar Wildes? The Importance of Being Earnest,ibridged to one act, was essayed with great 74 A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE earnestness. The French players gave us somevery adroit performances, particularly of suchcomedies as Labiches Jinvite le Colonel. One day there arrived in camp , late of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin,a little Irishman with a big brogue, a fundof humour and of its concomitant, goodhumour, and a budget of news of literaryimport, as that W. B. Yeats was married, andthat G. B. S. had taken his place at the theatre. It was suggested to Martin that we mightstage one of the Irish plays. He had hadcopies of a number of these in his valisewhen he was captured, but, of course, thesewere lost. He was able ultimately, how-ever, to write out from memory LadyGregorys The Rising of the Moon, andfor my guidance he gave me a little papermodel of the stagi
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