One was a boy of nineteen or twenty, in a field hospital near Rheims, whose kneecap had been smashed.

In aiming kneeling, the left elbow rests on the left knee, point of elbow in front of kneecap.

On his shoulders was his knapsack, from his hands swung his suitcase, and between his heavy stockings and his "shorts" his kneecaps, unkissed by the sun, as yet unscathed by blackberry vines, showed as white and fragile as the wrists of a girl.

A leather kneecap, borrowed from the harness-room, is strapped on to the knee, and is a good precaution against rheumatism.

While speaking, a young cadet, who stood nearby, was hit on the kneecap by a spent ball, and at the shock cried aloud; whereat the General laughed so that his wounded side shook.

His hands rested listlessly on his kneecaps and his eyes were fixed on the sky-line crimsoning above his distant woods.