They were very quiet, Jerrold and Anne and Colin, as they set the booby-trap for Pinkney.

Yet it struck them that he looked sadder than a booby-trap should have made him.

" What they had done was beastlysetting booby-traps for Pinkney, and laughing at him when his mother was dyingbut they had done it together.

She took him away from his fear; she kept him back in his childhood, in his boyhood, in the years before Queenie, with a continual, "Do you remember?" "Do you remember the walk to High Slaughter?" "Do you remember the booby-trap we set for poor Pinkney?" That was dangerous, for poor Pinkney was at the War.

The German, true to his character of the world's worst loser and winner, leaves behind him all manner of booby-traps, some puerile, many diabolical, which give our sappers plenty of work, cause a good many casualties, and only confirm the resolve of the victors.

[Illustration: SOLDIER AND CIVILIAN MARSHAL FOCH (to Messrs. Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George): "If you're going up that road, gentlemen, look out for booby-traps.

Good Mr. Ware came down with all his men, And filled the house with lovely oily pails, And went away to lunch at half-past ten, And came again at tea-time with some nails, And laid a ladder on the daffodil, And opened all the windows they could see, And glowered fiercely from the window-sill On me and Mrs. Tompkinson at tea, And set large quantities of booby-traps