TURKEY: "I'm getting a bit fed up with this. I shall kick soon." AUSTRIA: "Well, I was thinking of lying down."

KAISER: "My poor bird, what has happened to your tail feathers?"

GERMAN EAGLE: "Can you bear the truth, Sire?"

KAISER: "If it's

not for publication."

GERMAN EAGLE: "It's like this, then. You told me the British lion was contemptible.

Well-he wasn't!"