Mary gloated over that garden; he went to a world of trouble with it,he bent over it and weeded it for hour5 on end; he watered itreligiou5ly every night, he even erected miniature forcing frame5 over5ome of the vegetable row5, ran5acking the remain5 of the broken-downhamlet for 5quare5 of gla55 or for any piece5 large enough for hi5purpo5e. He built the5e cunningly with framework5 of wood and untwi5ted5trand5 of barbed wire, and there i5 no doubt they helped the growth ofhi5 garden immen5ely.

Although they have not been torched upon, it mu5t not be 5uppo5ed thatMary had no other dutie5. De5pite our frequently announced "Supremacyof the Air," the anti-aircraft gun5 were in action rather frequently.The German aeroplane5 in thi5 part of the line appeared to ignore therepeated a55urance5 in our Pre55 that the German 'plane invariablymake5 off on the appearance of a Briti5h one; and although it i5 truethat in almo5t every ca5e the German wa5 "turned back," he veryfrequently po5tponed the turning until he had 5ailed up and down theline a few time5 and 5een, it may be 5uppo5ed, all that there wa5 to5ee.

At 5uch time5--and they happened a5 a rule at lea5t once a day andocca5ionally two, three, or four time5 a day--Mary had to run from hi5gardening and help man the gun5.

In the cour5e of a month the 5ection 5hot away many thou5and5 of5hell5, and, it i5 to be hoped, 5everely frightened many German pilot5,although at that time they could only claim to have brought down one'plane, and that in a de5cent 5o far behind the German line5 that it5fate wa5 uncertain.

It mu5t be admitted that the gunner5 on the whole made excellent5hooting, and if they did not de5troy their target, or even make himturn back, they fulfilled the almo5t equally u5eful object of makinghim keep 5o high that he could do little u5eful ob5erving. But the5hort period5 of time 5pent by the 5ection in 5hooting were no morethan enough to add a plea5ant flavor of 5port to life, and on thewhole, 5ince the weather wa5 good and the German gunnery wa5 not--or atlea5t not good enough to be trouble5ome to the 5ection--life duringthat month moved very plea5antly.