Every laddie in uniform made me think of my own boy, well off, by now, on his way home to Britain and the duty that had called him.

The fire laddies of that period would probably look aghast if they could see the implements in use at the present time.

A laddie like the one I ha' in mind would be seein' the auld folk countin' every bawbee because they must.

" They were amazingly calm, those laddies at the telephones.

And the laddies along the roads took them as a man takes a grand bit of scenery, coming before his eyes, suddenly, as he turns a bend in a road he does not ken.

But his blood turns to water in his veins when he sees the big braw laddies from the Hielands come swooping toward him, their kilts flapping and their bayonets shining in whatever light there is.

'We jist got hame frae Rothesay last nicht,' said Mrs. Robinson, 'so we ha'ena seen the laddie for a while.'

And, oh, I wish ye could ha' seen the bonnie laddie as his mither and I did!

The munitions works were there; the laddies across the Channel had to have guns and shells.