while other monsters bored and cut through steel plate as it had been so much cardboard.
"Good machines, these!" said my companion, patting one of these monsters with familiar hand, "all made in Britain!"
"Like the men!" I suggested.
"The men," said he. "Humph! They haven't been giving much trouble lately — touch wood!"
"Perhaps they know Britain just now needs every man that is a man," I suggested, "and some one has said that a man can fight as hard at home here with a hammer as in France with a rifle."
"Well, there's a lot of fighting going on here," nodded my companion, "we're fighting night and day and we're fighting damned hard. And now we'd better hurry; your party will be cursing you in chorus."
"I'm afraid it has before now!" said I.
So we hurried on, past shops whence came the roar of machinery, past great basins wherein floated destroyers and torpedo boats, past craft of many kinds and