Why is this wooden bridge called the "Brick Bridge"?
The latter is not exactly the right name. Perhaps it is because the little wooden bridge thrown over the evacuation canal at some time has been taken for one of brick by an officer of the Intelligence Corps while studying the map, and he has so baptized it.
One afternoon, I was sitting in a communicating trench at the side of Reymond, a few paces from the Brick Bridge.
It was a bright, sunny day and the boches were bombarding us with 105's. The shells passed ten or twelve feet over our heads, whistling loudly and exploded in the brickyard 200 yards on the other side of the Passchendael canal——
"If they lower their fire we are gone," said Reymond.
The sport lasted an hour and they did not change the elevation of their artillery, fortunately. I was prepared that day to await calmly anything that came. One gets accustomed, progressively, to chatting unconcernedly and without a trembling of the voice when waiting for a mocking death that does not come——
"But I have it," said Reymond. "I know why it is called the Brick Bridge—because the brickyard is opposite——!"
So we were satisfied that day.
THE QUEEN'S FLAG.
July 21, 1915.