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[[9 full images on pages 256 and 257]] [[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]] Press Illustrating Service, Inc. 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]] Press Illustrating Service, Inc. 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]] Press Illustrating Service, Inc. 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 [[boxed out in the middle of page 257]] [[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?