Was Ypres to be lost, after four years?
Was the Channel to be laid open to the Hun?
It lookit sae, for a time.
I was like a man possessed by a de'il, I'm thinking, in you days.

I couldna think of ought but the way the laddies were suffering in France.

And it filled me wi' rage tae see those who couldna or wouldna understand.

They'd sit there when I begged them to buy Liberty Bonds, and they'd be sae slow to see what I was driving at.

I lost ma temper, sometimes.