THE CAMELS ARE COMING (original) (raw)

THE CAMELS ARE COMING

by W. E. Johns

XII.���������������� THE BATTLE OF FLOWERS� (Pages 169 � 177)

Biggles watches Algy making a garden and planting some sunflowers.� Biggles tells Algy he can lie up in the morning.��I�ll take Cowley and Tommy on the early show�.� Three hours later when Biggles is playing cards, Algy calls him to see something.�A brilliant white light is slowing sinking earthwards.� It�s a parachute flare and the aerodrome is just about to be bombed!�Bombs start falling and everyone runs for cover.� Later, an upset Algy comes to ask Biggles what machine did the bombing.� Biggles says it was a Hannoverana and says it must have been from Aerodrome 29.� At 3.30 am, Biggles is woken by Algy�s plane taking off and enquiries reveal he is heading for Aerodrome 29 with eight Cooper bombs.�Biggles gets Cowley and Thomas and they go after him.� Biggles finds Algy bombing the enemy aerodrome and gives an arm signal for him to return to base.� Algy returns and is pleased to announce he got four out of eight hits.� Biggles says he didn�t touch a single hangar.� Algy meant the enemies geraniums.� Flowers!�� Biggles turns and sees that where Algy had planted his sunflowers there was merely a big hole.� Algy has gone and done the same to the enemy.