TAKEN PRISONERS "That arm of yours always seems to be getting itself damaged, Jack," Hawtry said next morning, as he came into the hut.

"You put it in the way of a bullet last time, and now you've got it smashed up.

How do you feel altogether ?" "I am awfully bruised, Dick, black and blue all over, and so stiff I can hardly move." "That's just my case," Dick said, "though, as you see, I can move.

The doctor's been feeling me all over this morning, and he said it was lucky I was a boy and my bones were soft, for if I had been a man, I should have been smashed up all over.

As to my elbows and my knees, and all the projecting parts of me, I haven't got a bit of skin on them, and my uniform is cut absolutely to ribbons.