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[26 February 1917]the Brains of the Army were being employed to such purpose. As so often happens with what the Americans call worth-while discoveries, two minds working independently seem to have arrived at the same solution of the Innisfree difficulty. Capt H Graham in one of his parodies has the Stanza
I will arise & go now & go to Inverness
And a small villa rent there of lath & plaster built
Nine bedrooms will I have there and don my native dress
And walk about in a d-loud kilt
It is I think pretty evident that the parodist only put d- instead of b- because the latter, in print, seen in this comparatively discreet form of a single letter & a dash jars on the publics nerves.
There can be little doubt that however bee loud Innisfree was your glade can give it points and a whacking.
With every good wish for the Battery may its B- loudness never grow less, if one may B- allowed the phrase Yours J.C. Squire (Literary Editor ns) End of letter dear