With the Serbs in Macedonia

i8 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
in the Army that is where everything happens.
Whenever you want a man, that's where he is.
If he's late on parade or parades unshaven—
that's why.
Evidence there was none, except that of the
victim, or culprit. To make a new set would
mean that he must be left behind, and he
claimed that he was entitled to a new set at the
public expense and objected to a mere repair.
Like his officers, he didn't see why he shouldn't
get all he could out of the Army.
The matter was settled by arbitrarily sending
the man and the dentures into Bristol under
escort. There a dentist at first demanded a
guinea to mend them, was apprised of the facts,
and agreed to do it for five shillings, and
finally, when the moment of settling came,
accepted half a crown !
He made a most excellent repair of them,
and the man himself made a most excellent
soldier. He was, indeed, one of the best men
in the Company.
This excitement over, we really did embark
on August 27th. There weren't ver}^ many of
us. Most of the Company had gone before, but
the O.C. and two subalterns and the men who
were left had a very pleasant passage out in a
well-known Mediterranean cruising yacht, the
Arcadian, belonging to the R.M.S.P., then