ild except with
articles a list of which may be obtained on application. Nuts and
chocolates are strictly forbidden.

3. The undersigned will not be responsible for articles broken by
the child, such as watches. If watches are used to amuse child,
they should be held by child's ear, when an interested expression
will be observed on child's face. On no account should child be
allowed--knowing no better--to bite watch, owing to danger from
glass, minute hand, etc.

4. In lifting child, grasp above waist under arms and raise slowly,
taking care that head does not fall back. Bring child close to
holder's body, passing left arm under child and right arm over.
Child should not be encouraged to sit up--though quite able to,
being very forward for eight months--owing to strain on back. On no
account should child be thrown up in the air and caught.

5. Any further information can be obtained at Hut 7.

(Signed)

AUGUSTUS TIBBETTS, Lieutenant.

"All based upon my personal observation and experience," said Bones
triumphantly--"not a single tip from anybody."

"I think you are really marvellous, Bones," said the girl, and meant it.

Henry Hamilton Bones sat upright in a wooden cot. A fat-faced atom of
brown humanity, bald-headed and big-eyed, he sucked his thumb and stared
at the visitor, and from the visitor to Bones.

Bones he regarded with an intelligent interest which dissolved into a
fat chuckle of sheer delight.

"Isn't it--isn't it simply extraordinary?" demanded Bones ecstatically.
"In all your long an' painful experience, dear old friend an' co-worker,
have you ever seen anything like it? When you remember that babies don't
open their eyes until three weeks after they're born----"

"Da!" said Henry Hamilton Bones.

"Da yourself, Henry!" squawked his foster-father.

"Do da!" said Henry.

The smile vanished from Bones's face, and he bit his lip thoughtfully.

"Do da!" he repeated. "Let me see, what is 'do da'?"

"Do da!" roared Henry.

"Dear old Miss Hamilton," he said gently, "I don't know whether Henry
wants a drink or whether he has a pain in his stomach, but I think that
we had better leave him in more experienced hands."

He nodded fiercely to the native woman nurse and made his exit.

Outside they heard Henry's lusty yell, and Bones put his hand to his ear
and listened with a strained ex