And yet six weeks ago I stood at the pregnant beginnings of it all, when, though nature in the bitter frost and slush of early March showed no signs of spring, the winter lull was over, and everywhere on the British front men knew that great things were stirring.

From the confusion, and dampness the entire cabin had evidently been deluged with water, but this had largely drained away, leaving a mass of wreckage behind, and a foot or two still slushing about the doors of the after staterooms.

"You've fetched her away out here," went on Dickie, "and kinder got her cornered and you've talked a lot of slush to her and you've" Here Girlie came to the rescue.

He was knocking the packed and frozen slush from them at the moment Angus McRae confronted him.

The crush and mud and slush in the barn yard were frightful!

For the moment we had a wild hope that she could be pulled up, but by the time we could rig shears the air temperature had converted the slush into hardened ice, and she was found to be stuck fast.

Stevens rolled his quid and spat into the water slushing at his feet.

" It was midway in the forenoon that Frank met Mr. Slush on deck.

"But it is best to throw slush over the fire and hide our traces.

Fix it to ride steady, and stand bywe'll pass a wounded man out to you!" I stepped across to Sanchez, slushing through the water, and barely able to keep my feet.

A slushing of water proved that the deck amidships was being washed down, and twice, at least, men were sent aloft to make some change in the spread of canvas.

The men do not respect him as an officer, and he is obliged to go aloft to put his hands into the tar and slush with the rest.

He slid along it for a hundred feet or more on his stomach, like a rocket with a wake of spray and slush for a tail.