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[[two images cut off with verbiage underneath]]

[[Text above the image of the gentleman and cat]]
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. 

[[Text below the image of the gentleman and cat]]
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.

[[Text below the bulldog photo]]
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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.

[[Top of page 256 beside cutoff photo]]
He has a two-palm Croix de Guerre.  I'm
     proud to be his pet. 

[[Text under cutoff photo on page 256]]
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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.

[[Text under photo of 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.

[[Text under large photo with gentlemen, plane and dog]]
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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.

[[Text under cutoff photo on page 257]]
Underwood and Underwood
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
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[[Text under picture of train car and tent]]
Underwood and Underwood.
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.

[[Text under photo of gentlemen sitting in plane]]
Underwood and Underwood
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.

[[Text under photo of doll]]
Underwood and Underwood.
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?