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SOME ANIMAL FRIENDS OF OUR FLYING FOLK [[LEFT PAGE]] [[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. 256 [[RIGHT PAGE]] [[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? 257 [[image - Ruth Law with dog]] [[image - Ruth Law]]