The battalions have to be filled and refilled again and again.

Don't decide in a hurry, but think over what I have told you." On the next evening when I returned from Quebec, I went to the Colonel and said, "I have thought the matter over and I am going." The time was now drawing near for our departure and at last word was sent round that General Hughes wished to meet all the chaplains on the verandah of his bungalow.

The time set was the cheerful hour of five a.m.I lay awake all night with a loud ticking alarm clock beside me, till about half an hour before the wretched thing was to go off.

With great expedition I rose and shaved and making myself as smart as possible in the private's uniform, hurried off to the General's camp home.

There the other chaplains were assembled, about twenty-five (p.