Let us have a sing-song." He agreed, and we stood in the middle of the marquee with our backs to the pole and began to sing a hymn.

I do not know what it was.

I started the air and was going on so beautifully that the men were beginning to be attracted and were coming around us.

Suddenly my friend struck in with a high tenor note.

Hardly had the sound gone forth when, like the fall of the walls of Jericho at the sound of Joshua's trumpets, a mighty gale struck the building, and with a ripping sound the whole thing collapsed.