On the opposite side the Archdeacon has hollowed out a noble, ecclesiastical burrow.

On the hills the soldiers are still at work completing their shelter-trenches and walls.

I think the Rifle Brigade on King's Post (the signal hill of a month ago) have built the finest series of defences, for they have made covered pits against shrapnel.

But perhaps they are more exposed than all the others except the Devons, who lie along a low ridge beside the Helpmakaar road, open to shell from two points, and perhaps to rifle-fire also.

The Irish Fusiliers, under Major Churchill, have a very ingenious series of walls and covers.