To Miss Drake, for her hospital and kiddies, two thousand rupees.

"Hi, you kiddies!

[Illustration: "Auntie Madge" (who writes the weekly letter to the darling kiddies in "Mummy's Own Magazine").

I'd be a hog if I didn't; because I, it may be said, am loaded with favors by you, and so are my kiddies.

Well, it wouldn't matter so much if I were alone; but, you see, I have a wife and four kiddies.

At one place the Serbian women and children got the breakfast of my men, the Tommies refusing to eat until the kiddies had been satisfied.

I must try and make upwhat I call 'kiss and be friends,' like two jolly little kiddies.

I'm bringing up my kiddies right, and I'm a proper family man, but I want my meat and my bread and my puddin'.

Mother says the kiddies would starve if I leave; but Stanley is coming on like a haystack, I tell him, and he does kick up, and he ought to be able to plough next time.

I'm goin' back to Blighty and a free-an' easy life, But I grant it ain't the Blighty of me pals: They takes the Tube to Putney, to the kiddies and the wife, Or takes the air on 'Ampstead with their gals; My little bit o' Blighty is the 'ighway, With the sweet gorse smellin' in the sun; And the 'eather 'ot and dry, where a tired man may lie When the long day's done.

CAMPBELL, RUTH. Kiddies and grown-ups too; illustrated by Hattie Longstreet Price.

Kiddies' hour at the Surrogate's.

ANDERSON, DOLORES PYPER. Pyper's Punch and Judy shadow motion pictures for the kiddies.

PYPER, GEORGE R. Pyper's Punch and Judy shadow motion pictures for the kiddies.

I visit the kiddies.

CAMPBELL, RUTH. Kiddies and grown-ups too; illustrated by Hattie Longstreet Price.

Kiddies' hour at the Surrogate's.

I visit the kiddies.

"And the kiddies.

But it wouldn't have been right to rest without saying good-night to the kiddies, would it?

Perhaps you have snatched enough time from guarding the kiddies from a premature end in Como to read a headline or so in the home papers.

Write me about the only man, the kiddies and your own blessed happy self.

The prospect of being with the girls and the kiddies again makes me want to do a Highland Fling, even if I am in a monastery with a sad-faced young priest serving me tea and mournful sighs between prayers.

It was the kiddies that saved the day.

My wife and kiddies are expecting me, and I must get home.