'Old Bill has always felt that there was something reminiscent of Bert about the way he got that nasty crack over the head from a tambourine at that little bit of a seance they had theother night.' Veteran soldier, Old Bill, the creation of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in his cartoons for The Bystander, takes part in a seance and suspects that one of the mischievous spirits might in fact be his old pal Bert.