. Hardware merchandising March-June 1915 . elievedby the external excitement of the heavyfire of the day. Men became dazed anddid their duties in a well-disciplined butautomatic manner, not knowing why orhow they did them but just doing them. The relief battalion took the pace ofthe Patricias that night, the latter wetand mud-soaked, short some of theirnumber, but still indomitable of spirit,stumbled on through the foetid destination was a ruined andnameless village a short distance in therear in which they were to do their timeas supports for the brigade ere theymoved still further
. Hardware merchandising March-June 1915 . elievedby the external excitement of the heavyfire of the day. Men became dazed anddid their duties in a well-disciplined butautomatic manner, not knowing why orhow they did them but just doing them. The relief battalion took the pace ofthe Patricias that night, the latter wetand mud-soaked, short some of theirnumber, but still indomitable of spirit,stumbled on through the foetid destination was a ruined andnameless village a short distance in therear in which they were to do their timeas supports for the brigade ere theymoved still further in the rear for awell-earned rest on the reserve line. Here for three days and nights theylived the life of the dug-out man—thatof human nondescriptarray they liv-ed between thenaked androofless wallsthat had once To the right: A cross marking the spot whtire three hundred-British soldiers lie. In no spirit of bravado, but in sheer indifference, the Patriciawhile jtfte shell fire was at its hottest, pursued the ordinary been homes but were now meremockeries of that name. By daythey slept and shaved and wash-ed and cooked, and strove courage-ously to rid themselves of the accumu-lated mud. Failing that last they solv-ed the problem as far as great coatswere concerned by slicing off in jaggedpatterns the heavy skirts. The result-ant patterns fitted in with their sur-roundings. Some favored a swallow-tail effect, some argued a short Cardiganquite au fait. Others claimed that thatwas decollete and clung to their mud-soaked skirts. Like bandits—a crossbetween cavemen and medieval men-at-arms—they appeared. Ragged and dirtyand lacking any quantity of water tocorrect that last they skulked and prowl-ed about seeking stray vegetables to ekeout the perennial stew, dodgimg alongthe cover of shattered ruins of walls,intent on nothing but their bodily com-fort, after so hard a punishment of night those apparently lifeless ruinsvomited out their dwellers, some
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