The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps

se before it was well begun. Once Jimmy had a feeling that he ought not to run back to safety before endeavoring, to see what had happened to Parker, but the flight

ad done, he thought to himself with

ce love for that noble hunter. He felt he could almost talk to it and tell it how proud he was of h

nd wheeled the machine toward the hangar, while Jimmy walked off to headquarters to report. Arrived there, he found that both the flight commander and sub-commander were out. No one seemed worrying much about him. He had been so intent on his job and

e the inclination to do so. What could Jimmy report? First that he had lost Parker. Where in the name of goodness was Parker? Jimmy would have given much to know, but something kept him from asking. He had been sent out a

he door of the rough headquarters shed opened, and who should

wondering where yo

ly can fly that machine you were on to-day, young fellow! If I were you I would ask the c

gasped. "Chasing me?

u saw me go for that big dray-hors

y no

dodging the finest collection of Archies I have yet met with. I got two fair-sized pieces of shell right through both planes, but they didn't seem to matter a bit. I got up to a good height before I quit climbing. So far as I could see, you had by that time managed to

ould get that center plane, and thought you would score two of them, but you were right to take no chances of the number three chap getting

per. He fussed a minute, undecided what to do. That is a bad fault at this game. I caught him just where I wanted him, and he did his last swoop, I gu

had been worrying about Parker! Well, he might as well own up to himself, he thought, that he had been acting like a very green hand at the game. But ne

der came in. Parker and Jimmy ro

d the chief

," answer

nd any of t

sir.

t h

out his damage from his landing, though I thin

at

side-looped and got free, then looped again and caught one we

t h

s,

that Jimmy was a new hand at the game, he said over his shoulder: "Very well do

hief stepped out of the doo

aid. "He went with Parker to-day, and between them they managed a very pretty show. I shall read their official reports with interest. It isn't very often a young fellow gets such a baptism, and

e," said the squadron commander pro

ifteen minutes going over what the day had brought him. Curiously enough, the last thing he said t

as his good-night thought