The Major was fearful Wampus might run them into the canyon, but the machine's powerful searchlights showed the way clearly and by sticking to the road they finally drew up before an imposing hotel such as you might wonder to find in so remote a spot.

In reporting this most remarkable occurrence Edward Price Bell, an American correspondent, wrote as follows from the front: A British observer, flying a powerful machine at 16,000 feet over Ostend, had the machine's tail shot off by the direct hit of a shella very unusual occurrence.

I want to know why this machine's broke down.

The other receivers came down quickly, and various homely household sounds mingled in her earsa sewing-machine's soft purring in one housea child's cry in anotherthe musical whine of a cream separator in a third.

With the development of the mechanism came the speed mania, which hardly added to the machine's popularity.

" "The machine's a Handley-Page bombing plane, made over for some purpose or other," said Bruce, with a keen eye for every detail.

"Your machine's broke down for good this time,