However, coupled with
our fire from the second story of the house, the effect was sufficient
to cause the enemy to retire from this point, and the remainder of the
day passed quietly, though the enemy's artillery continued to shell our
position and a machine-gun played on the house at every sign of
movement. By evening we had some seventeen casualties, a remarkedly
small number considering the shelling.

"As soon as darkness set in, under cover of a few skirmishers, two
platoons continued our original trench (A B) along a line (B B 1) about
fifteen feet in rear of the forward hedge surrounding the house and
linked this trench to the position in our right rear with a
communication trench, the majority of this work being done with the
small entrenching tool.

"This enabled us to get the whole company under cover, and with a
machine-gun of the _10th Battalion_ in the house we felt fairly secure.
Captain Hooper held a house immediately in front of our lines called
_Hooper House_, and our original trench was held by a mixture of our own
men and the Canadian Scottish under Mr. Hugill.

"Dawn on Saturday found our positions unaltered, but about 7 o'clock
orders came from Lieutenant-Colonel Rodgers, our second in command, to
take over all of the original trench and relieve the _Scottish_.

"Simultaneously Mr. Doxsee called for reinforcements to repel a direct
frontal attack on our forward trench and machine-gun house.

"Reinforcements hurried up along the new communication trench, but were
anticipated by Mr. Scott and a score or so of men, who dashed across the
open and repelled the attack, Mr. Doxsee being unfortunately killed at
this point.

"Captain Richardson now took over _machine-gun house_, and his company
(No. 2) relieved us along our original trench. The two Toronto companies
had entrenched to our right, forming a narrow and very dangerous salient
(C F).

"All day this house was the target of the enemy's artillery and
machine-guns, the latter sweeping the building so effectively that the
garrison was forced to lie flat on the floors.

"Six attacks were made by their infantry and repulsed before they could
get closer than two hundred yards, in spite of the fact that our only
machine-gun jammed incessantly owing to the rapidity of its firing.
About 2 p.m. one of our own guns came up, and from then on both guns
remained in action.

"About this time troops in French uniforms were seen moving down a road
on our