Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-13
BY VICTOR ROUSSEAU.

corporal pulled him down. Easy: don't
funk, lad; easy" he shouted. Orseguard
Baynes sat down and burst into tears.
He felt I'D his sleeve for his handkerchief.
but before he had found II his head went
down on his arms, and he was snoring.
Far to the left cheers arose. which were
taken up along the line. 'Hooray." they
cried. ERE come the guns! Now We
sharn't be long" The batteries rolled past
In splendid alignment. the yellow muzZles
OF the guns black against the sky line.' sud
denly q distant boom brooke the deep
silence. and with roar a shell spun
through the air and dropped among the
horses. The batteries wheeled and dis
appeared through smoke wreaths, the
drivers flashing their mounts furiously
Boom! sounded again: and with the slow
roar of train a shell plunged into the
ground not fifty yards away, scattering
circle of steel fragments, and splashing
up a shower of smoking earth Another
fell nearer; the enemy were getting the
range. And now heaven was filled with
them. They shrieked and howled on their
long journey: they fell right. left, in
front, behind: escapes appeared miraculous
Sometimes the acrid fumes hung over
head in yellow, sickening cloud. Men
rose up. shaking their fists at the mute
sky. Lie down, you blarsted fools.
cried others. You're droring the fire OF
their 'old blooming battery
IF one OF them things Its me I'm q
osda u!i. uoiu sE.e me "iiu &C. iho o">
Oh ere, prayed NoiP' uieiI 1hS, os.
IF this keeps up Wen orl De corpses'
myte,' said Scotty. moistening his crack
ed lips with his swollen tongue.
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hieu ia - n ,,.st aSart thet h,nIe there p,
asked Scotty. sneering. And Wot abart
Fagin at Paardeburg? Nice wy to die,
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III the olstahce'
b, ,rBTike the news to mu'ver'
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no more:
Rrike the news to .muvver.
On the flank bugle pealed. Advance!
Advance 1t called. Instantly Orseguard
Baynes. who had snored through the
shell fire. was on his feet. with thou-
sand others, stumbling forward over the
uneven ground. Their lips were blue
with fear. but the habits of the parade
ground held them and drove them on.
Most of their rifles were still sighted to
fifteen hundred yards. Fear verged upon
fury. They lea~ed from among the scat
tering shell splinters, cursing the enemy
ar aaott err
Sometimes knot would bunch, and
then the bullets Kissed past them like
haiistones. and all the while shells whin-
ed out of the distant sky and plunged,
roaring. into the grou-d beside then.
Orseeuard Baynes' rife stubbed Corp.
HERRING in the side and he turned on
him furiously.
Fer tuppence 'alfpenny Id bash yer
blcnmin' fyce i'm he screamed as they
raced neck and neck together toward
he safety zone.
Mon began falling thickly. Some. shot
through tho brain. would spin round and
ro,,nd their features horribly contorted,
their fingers cIutching the air Others,
who had fallen dawn and could not get
I'D again. stared wild-eyed at their