A Lively Bit of the Front

Carr's

as he stood in the open doorway of a "tin"

e reply. "You'll get your letters before

d, although broad across the shoulders, was sparely built yet supple of frame. His features were clear-cut and slightly elongated. A massive chin betok

is left wrist he wore a watch in a leather case that bore signs of hard usage and exposure to the weather. Attached to his belt was a sheath-knife, while

r than Malcolm--they raise tall youths in New Zealand--of greater girth, and slightly heavier. His large, muscul

course completed, they were assisting in the survey of the Wairakato valley, where a proj

the ground was green with verdure. Away to the west could be discerned the lofty ridges of the Southern Alps, some of the loftier peaks still retaining their g

ds were few and far between in the Wairakato valley. Thirty miles of indifferent road separated the camp from the nea

petizing odour of frying eggs and bacon, the fumes of cheap kerosene notwithstanding. "Tell Kaitiu to take the lar

iderable portion of the floor space. Against the walls were cupboards and lockers, the latter mostly filled with plans and drawings. At one end was an oil stove, with a meagre supply of crockery and ironware above. Immedi

the camp postman. A new inner tube was wanted--badly. Without it there were long odds ag

a dozen makers' parts in the tout ensemble--the wondrous, once-discarded vehicle had been given to Peter and Malcolm Carr by a cousin of theirs. Being of a mechanical turn of mind, the two brothers s

n without receiving as much as a scratch, and having hardly spent a day in hospital. From Gallipoli Peter went to France, and up to the present his luck still held. But before going on active service Peter had disposed of his share

unced Malcol

till scrubbing his face vigorously with a towel. "Kaitiu's taken the ge

tes subjected to a thorough washing and dr

cle known as a buggy, driven by an equally dus

animal a bucketful of water. While the representative of the Dominion State Post was r

el containing the anxiously-awaited inner tube. "I'll be able to give you a li

newspaper packets and half a dozen letters, while Dick's c

ened was from his brother P

ALCOLM

rs. Our chaps are of the opinion that it won't. We are having a thundering good time, with plenty of excitement. I have a Hun helmet for you. I gained it properly, after a tough scrap in a mine gallery, but cannot give details. It's no more risky out here tha

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alcolm's father, above ref

R MA

l of our Christchurch friends have received similar news, it is evident that the Nth reinforcements have been in the thick of it. Ju

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n that hideous No-Man's-Land his brother had fallen. A raid in the hostile trenches; Peter wounded and left behind unnoticed by his comrades. A man in that predicament stood less than a dog's chance. He must have been too badly hit to be able to crawl in--and the boys back from the front told grim tales of Hun brutality to the wounded who were unfortunat

m and Laurence Selwyn--you know, they had a farm just out of Ashburton--done in; and To

nd missing," repli

e postman, gulping his tea outside the hut, was

colm glanced

that tyre. There's plenty of time before I see th