I have taken earnest young Territorial artillery officers in courses of gunnery.

You know they work with my own beloved old fifteen pounders, brought up to date with new breeches, recoils, shields, and limbers.

For months there was a brigade in Wellings Park, and I used to watch their drill.

I was like an old actor coming once again before the footlights....

Of course it was only in the mathematics of the business that I could be of any help, and doubtless if the War Office had heard of the goings on in my study, they would have dropped severely on all of us.