7 APRIL 1917, Page 12

MOORHENS AND SHELL-FIRE.

[To THE EDITOR. OF TEE " SFECT6TOR."1

Sin,—Here is a curious thing, mentioned in a letter from one of my sons at the front. He writes :—

" We were cutting wire with shrapnel, and the observer., only fifty yards away, turned to me and said there were two moorhens walking about just where our shells were bursting. An hour later I went on to observe, and saw a moorhen, probably one of these two, stand right under a shell-burst, so that the bullets must have gone all around it. It wasn't hit and scarcely seemed alarmed."