. War scences I shall never forget. ^ duties. These trenches we were inwere main-line, where the enemy was notsupposed to penetrate unless rude enoughactually to break through. So the soldiersportioned off the rough earth beside theboard walk that ran parallel to the rampart,and first they had a little vegetable garden,and next to it for beautys sake a little flowergarden, and next to that a little graveyard,and then the succession repeated. Five hun-dred yards beyond the main lines, across theinundated fields streaked with barbed wiresticking up out of the water, was the frontline trench, a r
. War scences I shall never forget. ^ duties. These trenches we were inwere main-line, where the enemy was notsupposed to penetrate unless rude enoughactually to break through. So the soldiersportioned off the rough earth beside theboard walk that ran parallel to the rampart,and first they had a little vegetable garden,and next to it for beautys sake a little flowergarden, and next to that a little graveyard,and then the succession repeated. Five hun-dred yards beyond the main lines, across theinundated fields streaked with barbed wiresticking up out of the water, was the frontline trench, a rougher rampart, mostly ofearth, and when it rained, oh mud! Undercover of darkness the boys went out andreturned, walking across a rickety boardwalk. Bang! Bang! Bang! Those were sharp. 0) o -§ War Scenes I Shall Never Forget 21 shots and sounded like business. They mightbecome more personal than the steady heavyroar of guns sending up their smoke at D on our right. We dared not tarry, for the sun was coming up. The Major of the line was waiting togreet us and offered us early morning re-freshment in his dug-out. His dug-out wasa cozy, comfy little place, two boarded roomsin the rampart wall, high enough to standup in, and furnished with a cot and blanketsand some chairs and a stove and a mirrorand some pictures, and, yes, a latch on thedoor to enter by. If I had had no ears itwould have been difficult to persuade me thatthere were men not far off who, without per-sonal animosity, would gladly have landeda shell in our midst. The war as I glimpsed it in the manyphases I was able at least to touch uponalways gave me the impression of running 22 War Scenes I Shall Never Forget up against a blank wall of contradiction. Topeople who live week in and week out in therange
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