PAPERSPAST

THE CHIEF ASSASSIN

The Chief Assassin (as they call him affectionately) is a valuable asset of a certain British regiment in France. He is> a great sniper, and one of the last six men left out of 48 Avho came from South Africa at the beginning of the Avar. All thesemen wore fine shots, and Avere formed into a kind of snipers' battalion, picking off a large number of Germans. The "Chief Assassin" was sent for by the colonel, narrates a Avell-knoAATi AA r ar correspondent, so that I might have the pleasure of talking to him, but as he. was a modest and bashful man he stood out in the roadway Avhile I spoke to him alone (a whistle was blown just then as a signal to take to coA r er, but tho sniper said it wasn't Avorth bothering about). He grinned Avhen I asked him to tell me his biggest bag. "I picked .off 12 in one afternoon," ho said. "But it's all in the day's, work. If I can kill one or tAvo a day I'm satisfied. It's just a question of waiting for one's opportunity, and sometimes 1 there's good sport and sometimes there ain't. I ca-n't help laughing sometimes Avhen I catch on© bending, as you might say. Oh, it has its funny side, if you lock at it from the right point of vieAv."

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