present to the world a picture of sombre seriousness, are asking us to change our national character. Cromwell asked the painter to paint him, "warts and all." Bairnsfather sketches us—smiles and all. And who would take the smiles off the "dials" of the figures you will see on the pages that follow? With the three noted exceptions, punctuation anomalies were retained to match the original drawings. The exceptions are in the books printed explanations, not in any cartoon. Page 5 , period added to illustration caption ("Jack Johnson" shell.) Page 112 , single opening quote changed to double. ("You wait till I) Page 125 , period added to title of picture to match rest of format (That Provost-Marshal Feeling.) Pages 92 and 97 were halves of the same comic. They were reattached to aid readability.