Humour.
The censorship in the war was responsible for many humorous effects, but few of them were rore humorous than one which has just been heard from Mr. Alfred Noyes, by a Scots correspondent. During the war he visited a certain trawling fleet which was engaged in operations against submarines, and his fancy was caught by the names bestowed on the trawlers, "as some unknown poet had had the naming of them." One was ''Custy Miller," another ''Kilmeny," and so on. The last name, of course, suggested Hogg's poem, and Mr. Noyes composed a poem vith the refrain—Late in the evening Kilmeny came ome, 3 But nobody Knew where Kilmeny had "I wanted," added Mr. Noyes, "to put in a reference to the great steel works at Bethlehem,. Philadel. phia, so I wrote—With a gun at her bow that was Bethlehem's best.
The poem had to pass through the Gensor's hands, amd he struck out 'Bethlehem' because the United States had not yet come into the war, and suggested in a pencil note in the margin Vickers Maxim's best. Think of it in a line of{of China being left alone except poetry—Vickers Maxim's best! I! through the mutual jealousies of
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