Talkin' to this same German--He's always pumpin' me about the Suffragettes so I occasionally put a question or so to 'im, 'e knowing 'what's, what' in the money market--'e says to me just before I come over, 'What's your English proverb, Madame Varennes, about 'avin' all your eggs in one basket?
Is all your money in English and Belgian securities ?' I says 'Chiefly Belgian and German and Austrian, and some I've giv' to me daughter to do as she likes with.' 'Well' 'e says, 'friend speakin' to friend, you've giv' me several good tips this autumn,' he says.
'Now I'll give you one in return.

Sell out your Austrian investments--there's goin' to be a big war in the Balkans next year and as like as not _we_ shall be here in Belgium.

Sell out most of yer Belgian stock and put all your money into German funds.

They'll be safe there, come what may.' I thanked 'im; but I haven't quite done what he suggested.

I'm takin' all my money out of Austrian things and all but Ten thousand out of Belgian funds.