Show llomUlitll n trllllrrj talc While n giin cute being loaded Bombshell would nil on the parapet and watch the operation That Unshed Un-shed ho would Jump and look out to tea over the range and then scamper down from the parapet and follow im Into tho liombproof Ah usual Ilombshcll was on hand to 10 tho tent of Iho new big gun lie superintended the loading snub while I was nlmlng the gun < ho looked over lime range as carefully as did the lookout and from his nlr of melons blllty one might have supposed that 10 him had been Intrusted the duly or teeing that tho range wa clear Hut when rtn started for the bombproof bomb-proof Instead of following us as was ila custom Donibshell remained on the parapet looking out to sea and mining the air In a moment Ira dashed on through the bushes which covered the narrow lunch between Ihe parapet and Ihn era Though thinking hit action peculiar I was sure that ho would not remain In front of the gun becauno be had lone to once when quite jouiiR and ncxperlenced and lima burning grain 01 powder which are alwa > thrown out by the blast of n gun had burled hcmscltc In hla akin burning him badly I 110 bud never forgotten this Certain that ho would lake cars of ilmcelf I paid no further attention to him but went with tho other Into the bombproof and took my place by the electric key ready to fire at the command com-mand of tho captain Just aa the command Tirol na about to bo given Dombshelt reap icjred on tho parapet anti began to bark furiously Into limo very inutile of ho gun I called lo him but ho would not come Annoyed at tho dcluy of thin test I tried to catch him but could 1 not do no A I approached he roo trratid otlll barking and apparently urging mo to follow him Finally convinced from the dOIlO action that something was wrong the electric wire was disconnected from tho nun and I followed Ilombshcll Wagging his tall with Joy at having accomplished hla object ho led mo through Ibo nnderbriith to the beach There concealed behind a clump or bushes were two little children qulvt ly digging In the land and entirely un concclou of tho danger In which they had been lltnt John C W Ilrookr In Bt Nicholas |