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SOME ANIMAL FRIENDS OF OUR FLYING FOLK

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[[IMAGE - Ruth Law and her dog]]
[[CAPTION]]Copyright Underwood and Underwood[[/CAPTION]]

I am a Belgian police dog; pray can you 
guess my name?
My mistress is the great Ruth Law of
aeronautic fame.
The hat I wear, from trenches brought,
my secret would enravel;
And to the first to guess my name I'll
give a year's AIR TRAVEL.

[[IMAGE - photo of William Lindley and a pig]]

A whirling, sharp propeller clipped off his tail so neat,
Yet here is bob-tailed Spark Plug climbing, leaping for his meat.
This mascot of the Princeton School thinks porkless days
a sham,
So he lets Aviator William Lindley feed him ham.

[[IMAGE - "Bully" the dog]]
[[CAPTION]]Press Illustrating Service, Inc.[[/caption]]

Whene'er my master makes a flight,
I sit in the observer's seat
And count the whirring trip a treat.
I'm "Bully" - Royal Flying Corps' delight.

[[IMAGE - photo of Lieut. Stehlin and his dog]]
[[CAPTION]]Photo of Lieut. Joseph L. Stehlin
Copyright Western Newspaper Union[[/CAPTION]]

My master is a Brooklyn boy who worked
his way to France.
He joined the Lafayette Escadrille to get
a fighting chance.
Four German planes accounted for - he 
wasn't voting yet -
He has a two-palm Croix de Guerre.  I'm
proud to be his pet.

[[IMAGE - photo of pigeon with message in feathers]]
[[CAPTION]]Press Illustrating Service, Inc.[[/CAPTION]]

To Belgian Signal Corps this pigeon brings
A message of a bridge, a wood, a mine.
With each location noted on its wings
In code, he passes with no countersign.

[[IMAGE - photo of 2 lion cubs]]

These lion cubs two, from the Paris zoo,
Were gifts to the Lafayette Escadrille;
But they proved too frisky, did Soda and Whiskey,
And back they were shipped to keep still.

[[IMAGE - photo of fox terrier with people inspecting plane]]
[[CAPTION]]Press Illustrating Service, Inc.[[/CAPTION]]

While Joffre and Nivelle inspected a 'plane
That Frankish prowess captured and brought low
A shrewd fox terrier saw a chance of gain
And made himself the centre of the show.

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[[IMAGE - photo of hawk]]
[[CAPTION]]Underwood and Underwood.[[/CAPTION]]

Arrested in his flight, by airplane stopped,
This hawk is a mascot, his wings close cropped.
Now man is the monarch of earth, air and sea,
Nor zephyr nor bird-flight will untrammeled be.

VERSES BY
DOROTHY WOODS

[[IMAGE - photo of pigeons being let go to fly messages]]
[[CAPTION]]Underwood and Underwood.[[/CAPTION]]

The wireless, the telegraph, the telephone - all three -
Will carry grave dispatches in warfare oversea;
And out from cotes go messengers that are both tried and true.
Our allies use the pigeon, as the ancients used to do.


[[IMAGE - photo of man with horse]]
[[CAPTION]]Underwood and Underwood.[[/CAPTION]]

An aero gun that will ride the sky
And over the German trenches fly
Now rides on my back, and I'm proud of it;
I'm only a horse, but I'm doing my bit.

[[IMAGE - photo of 2 gentlemen in an airplane with a tortoise]]
[[CAPTION]]Underwood and Underwood.[[/CAPTION]]

Once there was a tortoise who vanquished a hare
In a race; but he just wasn't in it
With this British mascot in Turkish campaigns
That traveled a mile ev'ry minute.

[[IMAGE - photo of a doll]]
[[CAPTION]]Underwood and Underwood.[[/CAPTION]]

A mere "dumb animal" I may be,
But to a Briton I bring good luck.
Through sawdust and bisque, I
will take any risk -
Now, don't I show courage and pluck?

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[[image - Ruth Law with dog]]
[[image - Ruth Law]]