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DIV. - NEWS EIIITOR. CAPT. W. F. OR R. - - - Sgt J. W. CAMPBELL. N 20 BRITISH EX. FORCE, FRANCE, DEC. 10 1916 Price Id. SPECULATION FLANDERS AS A HEALTH RESORT Most of us have had dealings in Real Estate at « Flanders, as a health resort, has never been one time or another. Many of us have met fluent properly apprecia ted by a careless and superficial tongued orators, armed with a plan and a propo- public ». This announcement, which recently sition, and have parted with our cash in exchange appeared in a well -known London contemporary, After {; for experience. Not always of course, but some- contains a remarkable and obvious truth. times. some experience of the health- giving properties of Apparently there are men in the Canadian con- Belgian air at 2 a. m. on a stormy night, we are disposed to agree, and even to carry the statement _ tingent, with whom land speculation has become such a habit, that even in the face of death and a little further. under the very eyes of the Hun, they must ply If you are bored and blase ; if life, for you, has their persuasive trade. become a dull uninteresting round of distasteful ; if you desire fresh thrills and new excite- Recently, when a certain battalion was « in », duties ; if you feel the blood coursing ma- there were pro dug -outs in the trenches, and one ments would ; for life of of the boys promptly pre -empted a hole under the dly through your veins if you yearn a parapet. From this neither threats nor entreaties primitive simplicity uncontaminated by needless him. and hurtful luxury - join the army and come to could draw The stimulating effects of the crescendo As a habitation it was nothing to write hone Flanders. - whistle of approaching shrapnel are truly ama- about. The decorations were done mainly in mud. men whose lines have con- zing. Fat men, family men, Almost any building inspector would were obviously laid for fire -side ease and domes- demned it on sight. It was neither safe nor sa.'l i have been known to be stung to an tary, but at least it was a shelter of sorts from the tic placidity, astonishing activity at the sound ; to perform « whiz -bang ». weather and the feats of strength and narvels of speed quite incom- Noticing this, a man with the speculator's eye prehensible to the civilian. If you would fathom offered two francs for the hole. the secret of their sudden access of youthfulness, _ He knew the battalion was broke. He knew this there is only one way join the army. particular private was an easy -going creature and - a lover of the produce ofBelgium,and yet,by reason VVt..11. of his disgusting wealth, he sought to purchase the ease and safety of a fellow soldier. For two The wiring detail had just reached the shattered paltry francs in Bailleul notes he induced him to village, when the Hun began to plaster it endanger his health and imperil his limbs and his with high explosive. Naturally the men hunted life. (Government property too). cover. There's no use stopping to argue with large The joke was on the speculator -1n- the end, for lumps of cast -iron flying through the air. « Fren- no sooner had the transaction been completed. the chy » got separated from the others and ran right papers signed, sealed and delivered, than the ori- into the Wiring Officer. owner of the hole in the collected the «- Where are you going ? » the W. O. demanded. ginal answered nicest ,, blights » you ever saw, a « blighty » at «1 dunno, but I'm going pretty quick» once the delight and despair of the étitire Medical « Frenchy ». r men ? » asked the officer. Detail. - - « Where are the other » « Frenchy ». Shortly after the blighted one hat been tied up « Back there somewhere said », said the and ticketed, the Germans blew tlp the whole « There's nothing to be scared about trench. W. O. « These are only a few « whiz -bangs ». « Frenchy » : « Whiz - So you see, it sometimes pays to self on a rising « Whiz -hang » barked market. bang, by damn, full -grow ! » e ht. 12; THE LISTENING POST ; . 'I">" the parties that labour, for the Counsellors of our 091* É s . ' Mother's Service had decided that there should be built a road on which to run the chariots of steel, / s , and promise the hirelings many shekels that they labour thereon. 61. - And the band of our O.C. did depart daily .!G of ÿ', í ^ . ere the sun was yet up and weild mightily the ' '-' ` \ : `v`., pick and the shovel, for they knew not the craft j:Q 7 `.; and cunning of the Counsellors Who watched oytQ say .S>>_ furtively and were much pleased, and did \ ; « Behold, is a that one unto the other here band the l';, El) 'i V lí.}ß. :4i {i y ilia (Huns permitting) labour mightily because they love it, verily in and may he procured from the following agents days to come shall theY fill many sand -bags in the - lands beyond the sea ». LGN G6i t-55. -- And there was one among the hirelings . (i `<:) BURCH, MILITARY TAILOR, - 420 Strand, London, W. C., Eng. that had been appointed to assist the Q. M. left to IN THE FIELD. (note new address). become a henchman in our Mother's Service and Canteens of .ilr ih, 8th, and 10th Canadian Inf. there was appointed in his place the Sergeant of Battalions. the fire slicks that shoot forth the forked lighning; Canteens most Canadian Corps Area. and he was another who had served with much Army Canteens in Canadian ,Corps Area. distinction in the sun countries, yet having abs- Y. .li. C. As. in . tained much from the curries and the chutneys Soldiers Institute, Canadian Corps. was not aflicted with the sun madness so often as his swarthy comrade of the seventh company and E,''- ITORIAL to distingush him he was known to all men as the R. Q. M. S. « musket on shoulder, With thy thy 66. - And the feast of the Christ was held at Thou shat prove who is the bolder, this time 'with much joy and cheering, and eating Ere the mountains are much older, of the good things of the country, and the drink- Noll of mine. » ing of the waters of the northern parts of our (WILLIAM WALLACE). Mother's Country. wtiv.útiv1 67. - - -- And when seven days had passed they did After an unavoidable break in the publication celebrate the birth of a new year with blowing of of « The Listening Post », (for- which you can trumpets and bugles and with the wild music either thank or blame the Hun) we are once more that kills from afar by the bands that were of the in a position to carry on... savage races, and say each unto the other « This For 'the :benefit of those who have lately come is the year that we have waited for when we to us, we wish to point out that, during the past shall fight the King's enemies and march through year, « The Listening Post » has become one of the fair cities of our enemy's country even unto the most widely known soldiers papers published the chief city that is called Berlin ». at the front. 68. - And the Chief Counsellor of our Mother's As we are dependent, for our existence, on the Country did decree that all bands should have hut original literary contributions sent in, we appeal four companies ; but that all may go across the to all who can write or draw to send its their seas did allow that two companies be put together prose, poetry, or pen and ink sketches. Even if it and one company." is only the germ and gist of a joke, an odd situa- - And they did further decree that the offi- tion-; or an amusing incident, jot it down on any cer of the junior of the Majors being but an kind of paper and send it in, and so help us to ornamentation and a burden to the illy 1.;.i.e.=s make the paper worth while to ourselves, and an should cease to exist, and the T. O. and the S. O. t+ interesting souvenir for our friends at home. should be also of the henchmen of the companies four of the henchmen iLLLLLLLL and of the companies only r called subalterns should be allowed to each and By voting three to one against Prohibition, Bri- that all other henchmen being surplus should be tish Columbian 'soldiers have shown that they will left in our Mother's Country.