Fairies and Fusiliers

CONTENTS:


TO AN UNGENTLE CRITIC

AN OLD TWENTY-THIRD MAN

TO LUCASTA ON GOING TO THE WAR—FOR THE FOURTH TIME

TWO FUSILIERS

TO ROBERT NICHOLS

DEAD COW FARM

GOLIATH AND DAVID

BABYLON

MR. PHILOSOPHER

THE CRUEL MOON

FINLAND

A PINCH OF SALT

THE CATERPILLAR

SORLEY'S WEATHER

THE COTTAGE

THE LAST POST

WHEN I'M KILLED

LETTER TO S.S. FROM MAMETZ WOOD

A DEAD BOCHE

FAUN

THE SPOILSPORT

THE SHIVERING BEGGAR

JONAH 


JOHN SKELTON

I WONDER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE DROWNED?

DOUBLE RED DAISIES

CAREERS

I'D LOVE TO BE A FAIRY'S CHILD

THE NEXT WAR

STRONG BEER

MARIGOLDS

THE LADY VISITOR IN THE PAUPER WARD

LOVE AND BLACK MAGIC

SMOKE-RINGS

A CHILD'S NIGHTMARE

ESCAPE

THE BOUGH OF NONSENSE

NOT DEAD

A BOY IN CHURCH

CORPORAL STARE

THE ASSAULT HEROIC

THE POET IN THE NURSERY

IN THE WILDERNESS

CHERRY-TIME

1915

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