A man from Cook's, one of the interpreters, with a horrible knowledge of English, said: "Taube or not Taube; that is the question." He was told he was inviting a worse death than from a bomb.

To illustrate the attitude of mind of the Parisian, there is the story of the street gamin who for some time, from the Garden of the Tuileries, had been watching a German aeroplane threatening the city.

Finally, he exclaimed impatiently: "Oh, throw your bomb! You are keeping me from my dinner." A soldier under fire furnishes few of the surprises of conduct to which the civilian treats you.

The soldier has no choice.

He is tied by the leg, and whether the chances are even or ridiculously in his favor he must accept them.