away. They disappeared before the shell was put. The men killed entered a freight ready for them. went back to the road I found that the carts had not arrived. At last they came all but one of them my glasses I could see it at an immense distance. I asked him why it was so late & he looked at me for a moment then murmured something as unintelligible as this he had been talking Greek after vain attempts to parse it I gave up. Then thru' my glasses I saw the reason. That the boys had purchased a sheep a few days before & were drag- ging it along behind the cart. Half the time it was on the ground & the torture (to its poor little nature) must have been terrible. The damned Chinese would not even put it in the cart. They have absolutely no sense of pity & only laughed when they saw its condition. I told them that the sheep would get in the cart at once or they could kill it. The former course was adopted, I after tipping me that a young animal at about 20 yds. off it could run as well as an old me sure if it was my 3rd & days old. This little fellow and rushing forward with the square and