The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-11-22
"A Trasedy Of
The Trench
By LALLY BERNARD
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upward again. Behind this little hmm
mock two men are lying fiat on their
faces, while third figure is doubled up
and forms a support for one Of the tN,
men-a steady support for the rifle. lie
lies absolutely still-has been dead for
hours. with bullet through his brain.
Getting crampcd beyond endurance. he
had, in spite of his companions remon-
strances, insisted on rising ami stretching
his limbs and, as they had predicted, fell
back dead.
The two living men are filthy and in
rags; their boots, half torn from tbcir
feet, look like those forlorn leather mvs-
teries one finds in bitches and out of The
way places, always suggestive of some
tragedy or of thieving tramps who may
have discarded them for a less homeless
pair which they have managed to collect
on their rounds.
1t is hard to tell which of the men is
the elder: each one is sunburncd and
grimrd with dirt two weeks growth on
check and chin makes their sunken faces
positively ferocious; their eyes have a
hungry CLEAN. 1t is days since they have
had Il meal, subsiStiug on ration biscuits
more resembling dogs food than aught
else but they have carefully nibbled at
these to exc out Sustrnance.
For eight long hours these men have
lain in this shallow trench. so shallow
that when bullets come whiStling over
their heads their faces are pressed in the
loose earth for protection. The aching
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