hiz just overhead of a large gun missive, with its accompanying wind gust, and at the same moment something struck with a thud the tree from w

nce, in order to make ignition and cause the explosion. This had not been done; owing to the intervention of kind nature in the shape

was detailed in charge of the repair party. One day during the great Ypres battle, about ten o'clock in the morning, the bridge was smashed and I took my party up and made the necessary repairs. We had hardly returned to cover when the bridge was smashed again, and again we rushed out and fixed it up.

tely above me, upheaving the ground and completely burying me and half a dozen others. I was dug out in a half smothered condition, but soon was able to assist in the work of resurrecting the rest. The on

men went over, accompanied by the engineers, to destroy the guns, as it was thought it would be impossible to bring them back. This turned out to be true, as the enemy advanced in such strong mass formation that our fellows had

attery to battery, and to headquarters, and the way they did the trick was to take a roll of wire on a stretcher covered with a blanket, to represent a wounded comrade, start the roll unwinding and running the wire between their legs as they walked. The blan

st felled a bull with his fist, so powerful was he. I re-lit the candle after closing the door. This was Dave's first "go" at this particular spot, and I cautioned him to be careful not to show himself in the open doorway with the light behind him, as the building was under observation and the splinters that were being continually chipped from it demonstrated how keenly active and alert they were, and made it necessary for a man to be on the lookout every second of the time. He said he would take no chances. Dave had just obtained an Enfield rifle

ight, you damn

y the report of a rifle and the whiz of a bullet passing me. When I got to the door I

of a distant flare, the white faces of two women peered around the corner of the building, looking at me through the open door. There was something so damnably uncanny in their appearance, and so

heir goods with them, but were warned against coming there again. They did not heed the warning. I reported their presence to the O.C. and they were promptly arrested

living in the cellars, the rest having fled at the German approach. We were ordered to put our guns in the very front-line trench for the reason that the opposing trenches being so close together, it was impossible for the guns to do justice to themselves without inflict

f the others, for the purpose of working out the plan of action by the Command. We got the guns into position under cover of night, and thoroughly camouflaged them with grass a

stance of three or four hundred yards. This rising piece of ground was a decided obstacle to our progress and it was ordered mined for the pur

e were going strong when a shell-the very first one-took our other gun, blowing it and the crew into nothingness. We went on firing until we had exploded 18 shells and had made several gaps in the wire, when, without a moment's warning, our trench mine exploded. The trenches were packed with troops ready for the word. A mountain of debris was shot in the air and back over us, burying a number of soldiers in the trench, where they died miserably from suffocation. The concussion was

o had just started with one of their old-time yells to go out and over. When we reached the German front lines,-or what was left of them, for the explosion had blown from them all semblance of a trench,-it was jammed full of German troops-dead. On we went, inclining to the right and reaching an orchard in which was a nest of them concealed in the trees. Those

ling us to beat a discretionary retreat to their front-line trenches, where we held and a

Givenchy, until about September 1, when my ba

ch they used for registry purposes,-a reference point in artillery technology. We were stationed on this sector for eight months, and our stay here was mor

e having our wires cut several times, caus

nd taking advantage of every bit of shelter on the way, but several ping! pings! warned him that he was treading on danger

ters, reporting that he had mended the break, when the wire was again cut. The bleeding from his wound now made it necessary for him to mend that break first, and he bandaged it as quickly as his nervous fingers would work. Again he took hold of the wire, crawling and stumbling along

hat you doing ou

loomin' leg now,"

e you wouldn't have got it. Why d

said Butler. He was growing percep

munication had reached headquarters that he was wounded and it was not long before the stretcher bearers came out and found him. They took him to the dressing station, where it was found necessary to

,-not so much at the incident itself as in the surrounding circumstances. In the midst of the service, a buzzing overhead announc

inued to read the service, but the responses were not as hearty as they had been, and he himself was standing with shoulders hunched up to the back of his neck, the book pulled up to his nose, and furtively

none of the messages reache