With the Serbs in Macedonia

TRANSPORT TROUBLES 89
''
YouVe left out the suet, sir/' said the cook.
" Fm sure there's suet in it, and brandy."
" "
Didn't I mention suet ?
swanker.
repHed the
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Of course there's suet— and I'll give
you the mixed."
brandy from the Mess when it's all
Thus was it ordained, and thus was it done.
Later one heard of such things as spices, and
raw meat— but what matter ? In the kingdom
of the blind the one-eyed man is king. There
was the mincemeat ;
and during the whole of
Christmas Eve, the officers' cooks and batmen
toiled at their task of making 250 —
mince-pies
or rather ''
turnovers "— without proper con-
veniences, in an oven that would have given a
pastry-cook paralysis.
Many other miracles were accomplished that
day, among them the creation by Workshops
of a shelter and a series of plank tables covered
with white canvas for cloths, the making — as
usual, out of petrol tins— of trays to hold
oranges and nuts, and the squeezing of a
hundred lemons, and the dissolving of the
requisite quantity of sugar by the doctor
between 10.30 and midnight.
The day began with a church service— a
pukka church parade — with every one un-
naturally smart, and the officers carrying sticks
and gloves. After that came sports for money