Chapter XXVIII: A Dinner at Headquarters

"A pig's head was also served, ornamented with laurel-leaves—for in
Germany it is customary to crown pigs with laurel."

Heinrich Heine, _Germania_.

... On servit aussi une tête de porc ornée de feuilles de
laurier, car en Allemagne on a l'habitude de couronner
de laurier le front des cochons

Henri Heine, Germania
XXVIII.]

FRENCH CARTOONS

XXIX. Poulbot is the interpreter of French childhood, and in that
capacity his pencil, before August 1914, had given infinite pleasure.
But pleasure ceased to be a very important pre-occupation in August,
1914, and even Poulbot's sympathetic pencil lent itself to horror as
easily as to mirth.

This drawing appeared in _l'Anti-Boche_, of Paris.

"Don't be frightened, kill her—I've got hold of her," runs the legend.

XXIX.]

XXX. When the Zeppelins first came to Paris, public interest was
immense, and children were wakened that they might not miss the sight.
This drawing by Baldo from _l'Anti-Boche_, is not at all exaggerated.

"It looks like a sausage!"

"Oh, no!" cries the child, "if it had been a sausage the Boches would
have eaten it long ago."