. Vive la France! . / : ; hjUjfjaphi //;, U Imajfine what it must be like to sleep in a hole in the earth,into which you have to crawl on all fours, like an animalinto its o c c o do c 3 I Ml ON THE BRITISH BATTLE-LINE 87 with filth that they would fall apart were youto take them off, your body so crawling withvermin and so long unwashed that you are anoffense to all whom you approach—3et withno chance to bathe or to change your clothesor sometimes even to wash your hands andface for weeks on end. I wonder how yournerves would stand the strain if you knew thatat any moment a favorable w
. Vive la France! . / : ; hjUjfjaphi //;, U Imajfine what it must be like to sleep in a hole in the earth,into which you have to crawl on all fours, like an animalinto its o c c o do c 3 I Ml ON THE BRITISH BATTLE-LINE 87 with filth that they would fall apart were youto take them off, your body so crawling withvermin and so long unwashed that you are anoffense to all whom you approach—3et withno chance to bathe or to change your clothesor sometimes even to wash your hands andface for weeks on end. I wonder how yournerves would stand the strain if you knew thatat any moment a favorable wind might bringa gas cloud rolling down upon you to kill youby slow strangulation, or that a shell mightdrop into the trench in which you were stand-ing in water to your knees and leave you float-ing about in a bloody mess which turned thatwater red, or that a Tauhe might let looseupon you a shower of steel arrows which wouldpass through you as a needle passes through apiece of cloth, or that a mine might be explodedbeneath your feet and distribute you over thelandscape in fragments too small to be worthbur}ing, or, worse still, to leave you alive amida litter of heads
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