The Escape of a Princess Pat

Leg of a G

rters-Surprising Kitchener-"Your Infantry's No

seemed to be working right through the heart of the German Army. Everywhere the troops were massed. Along the road they lay in solid formation on both sides. If we had had artillery to play on them now they would have suffered tremendous losses. The w

ss the old trail our fatigue parties had tramped new ones in the mud, u

e Sniper's Hut, there the Commanding Officer's. This was the hut in which the brave Joe Waldron had "gone West," that on the site of one where fourteen of "ours" had stopped a shell whi

s and the maison that. One of my companions pointed to a larger hut which he said our fellows had called the Hotel Cecil.

buried deep in the remnants of what had once been the beautiful park

there that day. Everywhere there was cookin

pe observed nonchalantly: "You fellows are lucky

t his remark so simple an air of directness and of finality that th

icer said "

ien." The other raised his

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Your turn to-day. Might be mine to-morrow." Tu

Canad

der straps and the red cloth "P. P. C. L. I.'s" on the shoulders of the others. But I had already shoved my few tr

her man a silver crucifix for the bronze maple leaves from the collar of his tunic. And,

. Since the bombardment and our wounding, our nerves had fairly ached for the sedative which, good,

ircumstances, but these took a different method to acquire it. As before, in the trench, they selected me for the s

"I don

dea of how many troops lay behind you and if in any particular you endeavour to lead us a

n. So I took a chance. "Three divisions." He appeared to be satisfied. The f

rmy? How many of t

en't even come

know better. They've be

I persisted. I told

e shoute

I flun

many of the

I was slightly heated. My spirit ran ahead of my j

uld not help but reflect that I had overdone it a bit. An

ner's army at four and a half million; which was only a trifle of four million out. So I determined to be reasonable. When he came to me a

anadians thought this was going to be a p

didn't

going to be a walk throu

t was the other way ab

, what do you thi

antry was no good." I began to feel shaky

infantry w

e held them a

n his throat and abruptly changed the su

t to get hold of. You cut

near-by trenches of the St. Julien affair. I even went into some detail to explain that we were a special corps of old soldiers who, not being able to rejoin their old regiments, had at the outbreak of war formed one of their own and had been accepted as such and sent to France months ahead of the Canadia

the 80th Brigade and the 27th Division. Colonel Farquhar was their Commanding Officer and Captain Buller took

er had been blinded a few days before and had been succeeded by that M

hem again. Cox died two weeks later of a blood poisoning which was the combined result of our rough surgery and the wanton neglect of our captors. I do not think he was ever able to write his mother as he wished. At least she wrote