eight shots were fired for adjustment of the defensive barrage, and a hundred rounds of harassing fire on various targets. Towards evening the valley was subjected to a heavy shelling throughout its length which resulted in killing one of our twenty pack- horses. Two batteries of the 322nd F. A. which had been in front of us pulled out during the night.

                Saturday was cold and overcast for a change. The Battery fired on the Houppy Bois. The Boche retaliated with large caliber shells in the valley. Several came suspiciously close to the guns, but cleared the top of the hill by a narrow margin, so we could not be sure they were meant for us. The echelon was moved from Charny 24 kilometers back to the Bois des Sartelles,—the greatest distance we had ever had between guns and horse-line.

                It soon became evident that the troop movement and congestion in our valley had not escaped the watchful eye of the Boche observation balloons. Sunday morning at half past Ave a lively rapid fire combed the hill-top, swamping our four guns with high explosive and poison gas, and McCann, Seale, Maguire, Foley, L. L., Cope and Lorenzen, who were doing guard duty, were so badly affected that they were sent to the hospital. The Battery fired spasmodically all morning. In the early afternoon our kitchen was the storm center of an irregular bombardment with heavy H. E. shells charged with arsenic gas. The cooks endeavored for some time to make pancakes and dodge shells at the same time,

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