...battlefield. While in the trenches an incident came under observation that verified the saying that there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. A comrade who had a dram of rum in a soda-water bottle took the bottle in his hand, and while holding...

...to watch their hearts and teach the happiness of a glad spirit ; and they told them too, that if " there is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," a slip is a small matter. With Golias for a patron saint they wandered from place to place and whether...