That was a German sniper's outfit.

" Soon after that an officer gave me another trophy that is, perhaps, even more interesting than the sniper's suit.

[Illustration: rucksacks] Nothing was to be heard except the occasional crack of the sniper's shot, the dripping of the rain, and the low murmur of voices from the outer cave.

Then, gradually, silence would assert itself once more and leave you with nothing but the rustling leaves and the crack of the sniper's rifle on the Messines ridge.

Some few days later they did make a sniper's post of that spot, and a captain friend of mine, with whom I spent many quaint and dismal nights in St. Yvon, occupied it.

But, in spite of this, Ted Caught the fever and enlisted. 'Twas our gallant pocket-sniper's Fate to find himself at Wipers,

It was late June at its loveliest; no signs of war except the sound of our guns some distance away and an occasional sniper's bullet.

Bobby, have a look through this sniper's loophole.

Next morning, through a sniper's loophole, he exhibited the result of his labours to Major Wagstaffe.