 I wouldn 't have missed that unique and weird Christmas Day for anything . ... I spotted a German officer , some sort of lieutenant I should think , and being a bit of a collector , I intimated to him that I had taken a fancy to some of his buttons . ... I brought out my wire clippers and , with a few deft snips , removed a couple of his buttons and put them in my pocket . I then gave him two of mine in exchange . ... The last I saw was one of my machine gunners , who was a bit of an amateur hairdresser in civil life , cutting the unnaturally long hair of a docile Boche , who was patiently kneeling on the ground whilst the automatic clippers crept up the back of his neck . 
