BAIRNSFATHER A Few Fragments from His Life COLLECTED BY A FRIEND With some Critical Chapters by VIVIAN CARTER Editor of The Bystander - THE MAN AND His VOGUE EARLY DAYS . THE FIRST FRAGMENT THE SECOND FRAGMENT THE THIRD FRAGMENT DAYS OF ADVENTURE .... - . THE FOURTH FRAGMENT BAIRNSFATHER AS A FRAGMENT IN FRANCE THE FIFTH FRAGMENT DAYS OF DISCOVERY . , . THE ESSENCE OF FRAGMENTS THE SIXTH FRAGMENT A REAL CONVERSATION 5 PAGE 9 47 79 THE FIRST FRAGMENT THE MAN AND HIS VOGUE TT F only we can get them laughing. So remarks to himself the individual who has a difficult c crowd manage a crowd out of humour, critical, peevish, bored and disillusioned. Were the affairs of the Great Nations in the hands of practical men, laughter would be one of the muni- tions of war, and the recruiting of humorists would be the job of a special department in Whitehall. Instead of which the humorist has been, in our country since the war, perhaps, regarded askance until well, until the subject appeared on the horizon, Bruce Bairnsfather, Captain Royal Warwicks. to of this booklet of the Bairnsfather has been the unsolicited and unexpected laughter- maker-in-ordinary to the forces of the British Empire at war a volunteer laughter-maker, who combined laughter-making with fighting, and extracted mirth and drollery from the most horrible situations ever endured by human man, situations which have made words of profanity, for the duration of the war, the Kings English. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.