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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2869, 6 September 1916, Page 5

The Clarcville residents have ar- , ranged a farewell "social" to Lance- - '! Corporal'B.M'Keuzie and Privates 0. ;{ W.'Hooker and Taucher, to take place j on Tuesday of nest week. ■ ! The wounded Tommy was relating his experiences to a circle of friends. "Yes," ho said, "I was in a. bit of a j hole once. There wero two German "'j snipers at me, and I'd only oneibullet left. They were a bit apart, too, so ■ ! I couldn't work round to get them in ,i line, and if I shot at one the other- .-j would get me, sine. What did I do? ; Well, my ltnowlcdgo of mathematics J savod inc. I got behind a.stone, work- ! cd out a few calculations and angles j on a scrap of paper,, stuck up my bay- | onet in tho stand with the edge to- j wards me, took careful aim at it, and ,j let her.go; and, boys, the plan work- j ed, for tho bullet struck the bayonet ; and the bullet was split clean, in . halves, and one bit killed the German ■ . j on tho right; and the other bit blotted J out the blighter on the left. Another • j time I was ——But his audience had J fled. _ _ j A Russian is not of age until he is . 26 years old. Until that time at least ■ four-fifths of- his earnings must go to his parents, if they are in existonce. ;