of us with the occasional boats of the submarine patrol to remind us where we were. That morning we had parted from the fleet; our speed was greater now, and just after dark we cast anchor off Liverpool, where a revolving light kept us company until sun­ rise.

As a matter of fact we did not see the sunrise, for there was a fine mist to greet us as we moved up the Mersey to disembark on a rather crude landing stage. Here we had our first glimpse of the British army in the shape of some very shiny officers and some hard-boiled soldiers with campaign ribbons for every affair back to the Norman Conquest. By 11 o'clock we were in trains of the London & Northwestern Railway and moving out through an ancient country where everything from railroad cars to houses seemed to be in miniature. The land looked as if it had been perpetually brushed and combed, scrubbed, shaved, clipped and trimmed, like a garden which was also a place of habitation and well cared for in either capacity. We passed through Birmingham, through Oxford where the towers of the University showed through the trees in the distance, then Winchester and finally, ground eight in the evening, came into the docks at Southampton.

Here again the Rumor Association brought us the story that we were to go on board ship at once, but we had heard such things before and were not surprised when instead we piled blanket rolls on a motor truck (they called it a "lorry" and made two very distinct syllables out of it) and marched three miles, through streets dimmed against air-raids, to a rest-

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