. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. posed thatyou would introduce anvthing of ceremonyinto your method of destruction. It maynot have occurred to you that he may slayyou. Theres a reason for everytliing youreordered to do. Youve oot to occupy aslittle space as possible, my lad. The lessthere is of you and your rifle, the less thereis for the enemy to hit. Thats why j-oumust practise standing with your rifle closeto )Our side. You bring your rifle to the slope because thats the easiest way ofcarrying it. 3ou are able to handle it easily under
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. posed thatyou would introduce anvthing of ceremonyinto your method of destruction. It maynot have occurred to you that he may slayyou. Theres a reason for everytliing youreordered to do. Youve oot to occupy aslittle space as possible, my lad. The lessthere is of you and your rifle, the less thereis for the enemy to hit. Thats why j-oumust practise standing with your rifle closeto )Our side. You bring your rifle to the slope because thats the easiest way ofcarrying it. 3ou are able to handle it easily under allsorts of unlooked-for circumstances. This detailed and thorough training inmusketry, therefore, was one of the essen-tials, although some of the new Kitchenermen, like the old Colonels friend, wereslow to understand the why and the wliere-fore of it. The range work was now reaching itsadvanced stage. Targets at 600 yards werebeing battered day by day by companiesof men, all anxious to emulate their the keenest rivalrv existed betweencompanies, and the most extravagant. THE QLEEN S WESTMINSTERS TRENCH-DIGGING ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH. The young man nodded in agreement. For equally good reason you are taughtto bring your arm from the slope to the present, and from the present to the order—that is, your position at atten-tion —your rifle by your right side. Andwhen you have mastered the peculiaritiesof this piece of steel and wood, and learnedinstinctively where the point of balance lies,and can handle it without danger to your-self or to your comrades, you are ready forexercises which necessitate the rifle beingcarried in the most convenient manner, and claims were put forward nightly as to rivalmerits. The recruit, who no longer regarded him-self as a recruit, had got over all his earlierawkwardness with the rifle, and had learntto resist the impulse, which every recruithas, to press the trigger at inconvenientmoments. He had come to the point whenhe almost automati
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