Mr. John Effingham has been telling me that he should not have been a bachelor, had there been two Mrs. Bloomfields in the world, and Mr. Powis looks like a rafter dugout of Herculaneum, nothing but coal.

" "Here's our dugout," said Tom.

Tom Raymond remarked several hours later, as he came into the dingy dugout where his chum was sitting.

The so-called "hut" of the Y.M.C.A. workers was really only another dilapidated and abandoned German dugout, which had been hurriedly arranged as a sort of makeshift headquarters, where the doughboys who could get leave might gather and find such amusement as the conditions afforded.

" Jack looked back and waved his hand to the little group standing in the door of the dugout.

Once more in their dugout, Tom and his comrade crawled into their limited sleeping quarters simply to rest, neither of them meaning to try to forget themselves in slumber.

Finally the two chums, finding themselves exhausted and in need of sleep, broke away from the chattering throng and sought their bunks in the former Hun dugout.

He absented himself from the dugout which the air pilots continued to occupy and which they disliked giving up until assured of some other half-way decent billet in a village that might be abandoned by Fritz when falling back.

"Never mind," said Tom grimly to himself, as he made his way back to the old dugout, "it was well worth the walk.

From indications Tom fancied that would be their last night in the old dugout.

Tom fancied that his chum did not get much sleep on the following night, the last both of them hoped they would have to spend in the dugout used as a billet back of the American front.

banka: A dugout canoe with bamboo supports or outriggers.

Dugout . . . . . . . . .

" THE GETAWAY By O.F. LEWIS From Red Book Old Man Anderson, the lifer, and Detroit Jim, the best second-story man east of the Mississippi, lay panting side by side in the pitch-dark dugout, six feet beneath the surface of the prison yard.

It had taken the twain three months and twenty-one days to achieve the dugout.

Although there was always a guard somewhere on the north wall, the particular spot where the dugout had come into being was sheltered from the wall-guard's observation by a small tool-house.

The earth from the dugout and the earth from these other diggings mixed admirably.

Plenty of time was thus afforded to shove a couple of boards over the aperture, kick dirt over the boards, and even push a barrow over the dugout's entranceand there you were!

He had turned into the alley just when Old Man Anderson and Detroit Jim were crouching for the final jump to the dugout!

Anderson never could give himself up now, however this business of the dugout and the hoped-for old sewer conduit should finally turn out.

Sigg had gone ahead with much of the baggage; he met us in an improvised motor-boat, consisting of a dugout to the side of which he had clamped our Evinrude motor; he was giving several of the local citizens of prominence a ride, to their huge enjoyment.

We went up-stream for a couple of hours against the swift current, the paddlers making good headway with their pointed paddlesthe broad blade of each paddle was tipped with a long point, so that it could be thrust into the mud to keep the low dugout against the bank.

There was no trace of it; we gazed eagerly in all directions; the dugout in front came alongside our canoe and the paddlers rested, their paddles ready.

The horses were swum across the river, each being led beside a dugout.

They descended the Ohio in dugout canoes, with their rifles, blankets, tomahawks, and fishing-tackle.