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Updated: June 28, 2025
They give John Jacobs no end of trouble, but you must have help," Asher said thoughtfully. Virginia's mind was not on hired help, however, as the sound of laughter came from the dining room. "The bridal wreath and snowballs make it look like a wedding was expected in there," she declared. "Will the Arnolds and the Archibalds be up? Have you heard from the Spoopendykes and the Gilliwigs?"
It was from Mamma: She was ending her visit at Rock Bar, the Archibalds were going South rather early, they had begged her to go, but she didn't want to, and Mary could look for her any day now. And she was writing to Georgie because she was afraid she'd have to tell him that she had done an awfully silly thing: she had sold her Sunbright shares to an awfully attractive young fellow whom Mr.
Looking down, I could discern several balls of smoke, which I immediately recognised as shrapnel shells, or "Archibalds," that had been fired at us by the Germans. They were well below. I looked round at the Captain. He was smiling through his goggles, and humorously jerked his thumb in the direction of the bursting "Archies." "Too high, eh?" I shouted.
This individual was supposed to be an artillery officer who spotted for his own battery which incidentally always did the most marvellous shooting from an aeroplane, in which he performed the most daring feats while dodging the "Archibalds" or anti-aircraft shells.
The Krupp Company has evolved many designs of anti-aircraft motor-driven guns "Archibalds" the British airmen term them with emphatic levity. They are sturdily-built vehicles fitted with heavy motors, developing from 40 to 50 horse-power, with the chassis not widely dissimilar from that adopted for motor-omnibus traffic.
It's too stormy for the Arnolds and Archibalds beyond the Deep Bend, and the Spoopendykes have relatives from the East and the Gilliwigs are all down with colds." Virginia had tucked herself down in the one rocking chair, with her feet on the footstool. "It's such a nice night to be to ourselves. Watch the rain washing that west window. It's getting worse.
"What I want to know is, are you going to make friends with that man and invite him to our table?" "I shall invite him if I see fit," said she. "He is an extremely intelligent person." "Well," answered he, "if you do I shall have a separate table," and he walked away. As soon as he had left Corona, the bishop repaired to the Archibalds' cooking-tent, where he saw Matlack at work.
These last fly high; in the clear blue of the early morning they look exactly like gnats; some trail a little smoke in the sunshine; they take their machine guns in pursuit over the German lines, and the German anti-aircraft guns, the Archibalds, begin to pattern the sky about them with little balls of black smoke.
Two in particular seemed to be closely engaged when the German suddenly turned tail and fled. A white puff of smoke beside him indicated that the Archibalds had been watching the combat closely. A second, third and fourth followed in rapid succession until suddenly at the fifteenth burst the Taube began to drop and flutter down, like a leaf falling from a forest tree on a quiet October day.
"Now," he said, after all preliminaries had been discussed, "the question is about the height. What is a tolerably safe height over 'Bosche'?" "About 8,000 feet, I should say, though of course if we go well over his lines it will be necessary to rise higher. There are too many 'Archibalds' about to dodge any lower." "Well," I replied, "I'll start taking my scenes when we arrive at the coast-line.
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