48/97 I hurried up the trench and was just in time (p. 105) to save poor little Philo from a court martial. There had been a warning in orders that day against the admission of dogs from the German lines. I had them sent to me from London, and have given away hundreds of them. I told the men that if anyone asked them why they were at the war, that little cross with the patient figure of self-sacrifice upon it, would be the answer. |