With the Serbs in Macedonia

io8 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
has the sUghtest respect for the proper place for
the pronouns. The simple soldiers had not
even this assistance, but it made no difference.
They were satisfied to be in each other's
company, and conversation at first consisted of
an occasional ''
Good old Serb,'' and ''
British "— Serbo's polite way of saying ''
another."
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It was the same from the highest to the
lowest. From the King, the Crown Prince,
Prince George — a picturesque figure with a
passion for old clothes and exposing himself to
danger — and the generals, right down to the
unshaven older men, the Cheechas, who led the
pack mules, they
British loved them, and neither of them really
knew why.
Their relations with the French were not
all loved the British and the
quite so cordial. In spite of the general application
of the term ''
insular " to the British, the
French are really much more insular, although
France may not be an island. The ordinary
Frenchman never travels, nor does he mix with
any but his immediate neighbours. Paris is
and is not France, just as London is and is not
England. The Parisian may be a man of the
world, but the average Frenchman is a man
only of la belle patrie. His conduct in this
ghastly war has earned him for all time the