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 at all the little earthquake which shook all their belongings down from the rack on top of them. Ten minutes later when the pajama clad athlete emerged from his cabin again and tried his dash over the roofs of the cars for the second time, his former victims were ready for him and he was obliged to make a hasty retreat through a "tir de barrage" of soft mud and snow.

Although we can't sleep in the old stable we have fixed up a dining-room and kitchen there. In the former we have two stoves and some tables and benches which we made from the planking of the second floor. And since there are really no more malades to carry here than before, we spend most of our time in this room.

Two German planes crossed the lines today in the direction of Bar. But they soon changed their direction when the French anti-aircraft guns began to pepper them. They were up almost twelve thousand feet, slightly out of range, I think. It was most interesting to watch the shrapnel break into great puffs of white smoke, sometimes rather near them but more often a long way off. I guess the guns do little more than keep them high up; and one of the Frenchmen said that the seventy-five nearest us had brought down only one German machine during the whole war.

Besides our dining room tables we have put