When you think of girls, so full of fun,
Remember me, the foolish one!

Joyce Orlebar. Nov 13^th 1917, C.H.S.W.
Aux. Hospital, Hinwick House, Nr Wellingborough.

“Better late than never”
Is a comforting refrain
Except when you reach the station
Just too late to catch the train.

Happiness is all right when you know it,
But you’ve got to know it first.

A M Groome, May 27^th 1922.

A peach came walking down the street
She was more than passing fair
A smile, a nod, a half-closed eye
And the peach became a pair.

In the merry month of May
In the hottest of the weather
If two can’t sleep alone
Let one sleep together.

Effie Claridge, March 20 1917. CHSW

Little Dabs of Powder
Little Drops of Paint
Make a girl’s complexion
Look like what it ‘AINT.’

Lost
Between Sunrise & Sunset
A Minute
Set With 60 Diamond Seconds
No Reward Is Offered
For They Are Lost For Ever.

Luv Chamberlain, March 10^th 1917. CHSW

Proud as I might be to be Highland or Scottish, Or Irish, or Welsh, or English, I would be more proud to be British for, there at last we have a bond to unite us all, and to give us space for every ideal, whether communal or individual, whether national or spiritual.

E McIlroy, Dec 1917. CHSW

There are loving hearts, there are faithful hearts,
There are hearts that are fond and true.
So give to the World the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.
Give love, and love to your heart will flow,
A strength in your utmost need,
Have faith, and others by their faith will show
Their faith in your word and deed.

Auntie Louie, Higham Ferrers, April 26^th 1921.

Smile sister smile,
When you smile another smiles
And soon there’s miles of smiles;
Life’s worth while, when you smile,
Smile Sister Smile.

H Claridge. CHSW

That that is is that
that is not is not is
not that it it is.

Best Wishes from Jim. CHSW

Matches are plentiful
Good matches are few
If I were a boy
I’d try to match you.

C Bayes, March 6. CHSW

To say well & do well
End in the same letter
To say well is good
But to do well is better.

Jessie Hill, April 2^nd 1917. CHSW

Of all the tasks which tax the originality one doesn’t possess, this one is an easy winner, so I’ll just content myself by wishing you the
Best of Good Luck

D S Gunn. Oct 8/25

I’ve turned these pages o’er and o’er
To see what [people have written before,
And in this lonely little spot
I’ll here inscribe For-get-me-not.

And on the last page:

By hook & by crook
I’ll be last in this book.

someone else wrote:

As you too near the top begun
You must admit you’re last but one.

A. M. 1917

And across the page edge:

You both are wrong……