14/43 A new kind of bomb gives him the same sort of joy that a new species would have given Darwin. He was over in France--where the armies had passed to and from Paris--and one day he found an unexploded German bomb of a new sort. The thing weighed half a ton or thereabouts, and it was loaded. Somehow he got it to London--I never did hear how. He wrapped it in blankets and put it under his bed. |