The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17

Fenche was given his leave and Mon. Tierne took our class of six. M. T.. is a wiry little man of about 24 but with his iron grey hair. worn a la beaux arts, looks 34 A happy, joyial, vivacious chap, patient as could be, and always on the job with the ma chine. He speaks very fair English, and during my association with him we got to be great friends. He is wild about hunting and fishing and several times we would start out before the , class hour and landing near some old farm, we would go in and talk about hunting and fishing, over bottle of wine. He has invited me to visit his home in Brittany when I get my leave and from his description of the GUS toms. the country and the houses, 1t wouldn't be bad vacation.
 "NOSING UP"
 "One afternoon when he had just had bottle of wine and a chat at q very interesting old house where the impressed hostesses stood and gazed we filled up the back of the machine with apples and started off again. The day was one of those grey va rieties so frequent this time of year here, and the only kind we had known for about a week. No sun and the sky was covered with light fieecy clouds. M. r. signaled for me to nose 1t up and nose it up I did till at 300 M we were flying blindly in dense mist The ends of the wings were hardly visible, then denser un- LII M- +. was a mere blur in front or me. He made me fly level for while to test my sense of eoui- liprlun, then taking the stick from me nc nc hosea the machine up at a crit loa1 pltch couple of times and bloov, Dnm. we were above the clouds.
 We were away from the earth and US coIo grey gloom and I felt like wa were riding on a big butterfly emera- ins rom It's cocoon as we came over the sunshine and swept swiftly over tne great rolling plain of snow or aosoroent cotton. On all sides it was
 ievel as far as the eye could see especially toward the sun. Obi {. was wonderful and I wanted to rat put ana walk around and roll in if put was afraid that M F. wo,I1dr,, VEL . Tor me or vice versa.
 We piayed around for awhile. made niH .ahe landings on the clouds and had . siodtous time. Then with the nose al- a,i.s rei.ica1' We shot through the clouds ,n, mlth rush that made the wires sira Ihe landscape all plotted off and gra,, ,Nsa elai .s coiors came into view and we had lelt the sunshine. We made a reversa ileht' spiral or two and landed ana gave the apples to the rest of tbe faI. usual o'' iohser than
 Then Thanksgiving came along and wa had real good American dinner. t,,r Key, pumpkin pie and all inc rect r. was your birthday, too, Tooks and of s an the things to be thankful for T iouhd you at the head of the list.
 MT Fouche returned and at once start ca concentrating his attention on rne TOT TOT ne said he would lache (release me ior soio work) me in few days
 A QUAIL HUNT we had just made landing in a strange field, I speeded up for the ..yat away and had Just left the gro,,nd my myen ,,e taere was a sing to the wires to Tn the wires next to the lower plane was big quail. M F. was deIightad and landed the machine immediately, We quickly got out and ran for him. b,t before We could reach him the quail. be- Ing only stunned. took flight He lit a snort distance off and I ran after him, threw stone at him and broke his wIng so that he could only run, but he could certainly run some. He chased me over most of France. At last I crept up on him and made a headlong dive and caught him. M. F. gave me credit thai evening for 30 minutes six landings and one quail M. F. thought that I was responsible for the killing but, as a mat ter of fact, I was as much surprised as the quail.
 There are two very charming ladies working at our Y M, C. A. and doing such good work, too. You have no idea how good it seems to hear an American girl talk. One of them is Miss Alice Gates. who knows Louise Homer quite we'll. She is from Lake George and real ly corking sort of girl She is making tremendous sacrifice to take up this sort of work and she will get pretty tired of 1t I know, but it is certainty worth while. and appreciated by every man in camp.
 Early one morning (about 7:3o) M. F. and l started out for the final instruction in D. c. (double controD. We flew across the river to great low meadow, where almost as far as you could see were ex-