Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . > f^,t XLIVGUN-TESTING XLIV GUN-TESTING THEY took me to the testing-ground, but, on a daywhen there was no testing, for they told me Ishould have to go into a bomb-proof cellar, put stoppersin my ears, and keep my mouth open, and then wouldsee nothing, and that there was nothing, anyway, but apuff of vapour, to see. So I went when they weregetting the gun ready to test and made the drawing. iPV
Joseph Pennell's pictures of war work in England, reproductions of a series of drawings and lithographs of the munition works made by him with the permission and authority of the British government . > f^,t XLIVGUN-TESTING XLIV GUN-TESTING THEY took me to the testing-ground, but, on a daywhen there was no testing, for they told me Ishould have to go into a bomb-proof cellar, put stoppersin my ears, and keep my mouth open, and then wouldsee nothing, and that there was nothing, anyway, but apuff of vapour, to see. So I went when they weregetting the gun ready to test and made the drawing. iPV n. XLVMUNITIONS CITY XLV MUNITIONS CITY HOW wonderful is all this energy, this smoke, thiscolour. How the city set upon its hills revealsand conceals itself—yet its frown is terrible. * LatelyI read an art book which contained a few lines of descrip-tion of these cities and the country where they are, forin order to show the terror of the land, the authorwrote of the black-smirched valleys, the gloomysky under which the train darted through forestsof smoking chimney-stacks and over grimy, trough-like streets. That these might be wonderful, pictorial,magnificent, the record of our age, never occurred tohim; it has never occurred to any writer but Wells.
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