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Show ' MY FIRST ZEPPELIN and flashed in the faint light of the dawn, leaving a small soft cloud of smoke in the blue summer sky. It looked so hopeless with scores of cannons belching forth death. At times it looked as if he -were actually actu-ally encased in the bursting shells; then he would dart off with the lightness of a bird, low neaTly to the earth, then soar up to the heavens' again until he was only a gray speck in the sky. Three times he came' back. The agony of mind one expe-1 rienccs when watching a lone aviator ' fleeing from the firing cannons is simply maddening I am sure my voice was hut the echo of thousands, as I cried ' Thank God", as he disappeared dis-appeared over the horizon. J The next dav we learned it was the English lieutenant, Warrenton. This brave chap lost his life shortly after w hile trying a new machine in France Although life was on the whole very serious in these perilous times jt did bear with it its amusing episodes epi-sodes I remember one day I had gone fhoppng down town and as I was passing the Gare du Nord. Brussels' Brus-sels' principal depot, I saw ten French prisoners surrounded by a few German Ger-man guards, they had evidently just i.ot off the train. The c rowd v. as good natured and likewise the German Ger-man guards, so I decided to remain and watch developments. Each jostled the other and as the crowd grew in number it looked as if the soldiers would have some difficult). ! Just then a band of street gamins came into sight each wearing an old derby hat with a carrot protruding ' from the fop in imitation of the German Ger-man helmet. These youngsters were singing the .Marseilles at the top of 'their voices. The crowd laughed and ! jeered until the guards became so enraged that they started for the boys. In less time than it takes me to write this there was not a French: soldier in sight. What became of. them, I can't say; but I did see, how-' ever, a number of coat less men and three or four women in their petli- costs with men's coats about their! shoulders! I j It was too large a crowd for the I guard to arrest so the German sold-j iers walked away empty handed try-; ing to solve the fate of the French soldiers Next day an otticial notice j posted throughout the city informed; the people that a tine of many thou-' "UHi of marks would lie demanded from the city for this offense, and , .hereafter no one. would fie allowed I By Mrs. P. Basil Clarke. Wc were a large party that Sunday Sun-day afternoon, and were lazily (hatting and having our tea on the lawn. Fearing it might be the last time for an "'out of doors" tea we lingered late and watched the sun sink through the leaves of the giant beeches in the Bois. when suddenly our quietude was disturbed by a whirr-whirr sound and with surprising surpris-ing suddeness two enormous Zeppelins Zeppe-lins came in view flying side by side directly over our heads. It was my first time to see this (.articular kind of craft and I confess I was -fascinated. They looked so absolutely harmless and beautiful, like gigantic silver whales glittering in the mellow ravs of the setting sun. I felt the same thrill that I had experienced ex-perienced as a child at the county fair in old Kentucky, watching for the first time the daring aeronaut ''go up in a balloon." I could not attach anything evil or riptroctive to the wonderful sight. It was only when one of my guests thoughtlessly evlaimed "It will take lust four hours to reach London." Fear clutched my heart like a vieej land I turned to shut out the sight, j I We were a gloomy party after that,: and soon separated wjth a silent prayer on onr lips for the safety of our loved ones, and with that firm ! hand clasp that conies with mutual suffering we bade one another l'aa-j l'aa-j revoir." I ' ' I No sleep came to my eyes that' i night, 1 could hear the cries of little j children ringing In my ears and see i the terror on the faces of the crip- ! pled, the aged and bedridden as the J whirr of the monster grew nearer and 1 nearer. Just at dawn I had evident-i evident-i ly dozed off to sleep when I was awakened by the firing of the anti-j I aircraft batteries that were stationed I all around the city, for the purpose of i j bringing to the ground any of the .allied aeroplanes that might attempt ! to destroy the zeppellns or their' hangars. I had only one thought : I It must be the returning zeppellns I pursued by the allied air squadrons. I I sprang from my bed and from my I i balcony where the view was unln- iterrupted, I saw a little bird like ob'cft that feemed to weave its wayt .between the shells which exploded |