er clad
in blue and white represented 'Varsity (Toronto). Further along the red,
yellow, and blue of Queen's University showed where their University
Field Company was at work. The same spirit of competition that existed
on the football field now kept the three units working at top speed.

A patch of land that one day was covered with cedars would next day be
bare of all but stumps, the brushwood blazing merrily in huge fires.
Next day the stumps in turn would be gone and by evening the new area
would be covered with tents.

Already some hundreds of tents had been erected on each side of what was
to be the main street of the camp. A ditching machine pantingly laboured
on one side of the road and dug as much in a day as fifty men. In the
ditch already made on the other side pipes had been laid and running
water was available.

Showers had been erected for each company, and, most welcome of all, the
advance party greeted us with a flourish of dirty aprons and ladles and
the joyful cry of "skillet."

During the afternoon greatcoats were received, and very necessary they
were, for when we rose next morning ice had formed in our pails, and the
trees on the mountain side were beginning to turn red.

Long before we left the mountain sides were a wild revel of colour,
reds, yellows, and browns predominating, where the frost had touched the
leaves. Particularly brilliant were the shot-scarred trees that stood on
the slopes forming the stop-butts of the rifle-ranges.

These ranges are worthy of special mention, comprising as they did
targets for fifteen hundred men.

The method of construction was simplicity itself. A deep ditch had been
dug and the earth thrown up like an ordinary trench to protect the
marker. Strong posts had been erected about six feet apart to carry the
targets, which took the form of squares of pulpboard mounted on a lever
pivoted to the upright. The weight of the target held it behind the
butt, and it was brought into view by pulling a short piece of rope
attached to the free end of the lever.

Crude as this arrangement was, it served the purpose admirably, and
daily we trudged out toward the mountain, around the foot of which this
trench wound much as the German line does around the foot of Messines
Hill, and fired ragged volleys into the re-echoing hill sides.

In only two ways could the training have been improved, and neither of
these two was practicable under the circumstances. Better checkin