Gas Rhymes

How To Tell The Gases

M-1

Grandma smelled geranium,
Started feeling kind of bum.
Sure, you guessed the trouble right--
Grandma whiffed some Lewisite.

PS

Don't you find my odor sweetish?
Said the flypaper to the fly.
I smelled just like chlorpicrin,
And you'll think you'd like to die.

CG

Maud Muller on a summer day,
Smelled the odor of new-mown hay.
She said to the Judge who was turning green,
"Put on your mask! That there's phosgene!"

CN

Apple blossoms, fresh and dewey?
Normandy and romance? Hooey!
For the charming fragrance then known,
Now is chloracetophenone.

HS

Never take some chances if
Garlic you should strongly sniff.
Don't think Mussolini's passed,
Man, you're being mustard-gassed!

-- FAIRFAX DOWNEY,
Major, Field Artillery.