Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-11-01
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BY CLARENCE 3. HOLLAND.

", or laughs. or both. Also. no mat
ter how scared you are, curiosity u T
wives.
II a sheH is coming. you want to see
1t land. II 1t is going to swat you. you
want to see how It goes about 1t.
We were going back from the front
back. The battle was behind US.
Privately each one Of US didn't are
how much farther behind US IT got. IL
could pick I'D Its belongings and move
away from us as fast as we were NOV
ing away from It II II wanted. NO
body would hear a protest from any OK
US.
E At a crossroads our meteorfc prog
ress was halted by q young and severe
soldier with NJ. p. on his sleeve.
"You can't pass" he said; They're
Smelling the road ahead"
He didn't need to tell rs. We know
Il. As q matter Of fact we could have
told him things about that road being
shelled that he would know.
A shell came screaming over our
heads to "wham" down alongside the
road a hundred yards beyond. IL
wasn't a big shell. In q calmer mo-
ment, and at q greater distance, I
might have admitted that 1t was q lit
tie shell, an Insignificant shell. q neg
lirlble three-inch shell. But when It
went over my head I was willing to
take oath that 1t was q e centimeter.
When I was dug out Of the ditch into
which I had Owed and the mud
scraped out Of my eyes I took q last
look down the road.
Cap as Shock Absorbsr.
Something was painting me In the q
gion of the knees Also there was q
sound resembling that made By Broth
| er Bones In the minstrel show. Minute
| examination demonstrated that the
pain was caused by the knees ASSAULT
ing each other venomously. I stuck
my cap between them as q shock D
sorber and looked again.
1t was a busy little road. II wal not
n popular road. Everybody on It had
| taken a dislike to II and was moving
away with enthusiasm. In the dis
| lance were three German prisoners
and n American private. The prf-
vate was on q horse. It looked q very
| fast horse but the Germans were hov~
ing trouble with It. It kept getting In
their way. They stumbled over 1t.
"wham" came another shell. It's
explosion was almost drowned out by
the sounds Of concussion at my side
They were caused by the beating to-
gether of the knees of the driver Of
the Y. NJ. c. A. car and BY those Of
q buck private Their note was differ
ent. and the meter dfsstmilar. but the
| air was much the same l could nor
| quite make out which accomplished the
most knocks to the minute. nor which
was loudest.
Several ration carts were approach
ing, It was no slow. dignifed, matron-
" progress Anybody who believes a
team Of mules is Incapable Of speed
should have been there to see The ra-
ton carts were filed with hard tack
The hard tack was as scared as any
thing else. and was trying to keep up
to the cart-but It was out Of luck.
II had no arms to hang on with The
afr was fun Of hard tack. II bowed
out behind those ration carts like a
ribbon, II was q snowstorm OF hard
tack. and nobody paused to ask where
It fell.
bitches Are Popular.
Every ditch was u~nbelievably popr-
tar 1t didn't have to be a deep ditch
nor q clean ditch Any common or
garden variety Of ditch would DO A
sfxSfoot man was perfectly able to con-
eeal himself tn q six-fnch ditch. Heads
would poke up. and another shell
would land. Immediately 1t would be-
come O scene Of d~esolatton. q lffeiess
w0ste>
After awhile an airplane went over
head to locate the battery that wss
causing all the rumpus. Then the bat
terry stopped.
"Go ahead.n said the N. P. ssThey'rs
through now
He "a the last NJ. P. I shall ever be-
tteve THIS Is positive, He meant well.
and spoke the truth according to his
lights. but hts lights were dtm. We
started. and We continued. We con-
tinued SO rapidly that the scenery
hooked like a green fog, for Fritz was
not through,
A she'll landed alongside the road
and a telephone wire dropped across
our races IT It had been q range Of
mountains II wopldnt have stopped US
People who saw u pass viii never
know what we were. 1t viii remain O
mystery to them to their dying days
We were a pale streak, a very pale
streak,
We were not travelling for pleasure
We were on business. Our Immediate
|, business was to 60 away from there
and our next immediate business wal
to fl the fiyyer with cigarettes and
chocolate from the =. II, O. A. ware
house and get u back to the boys bach
there II was several ktlometers t.
the warehouse but we did II tn ten fla
by the wateh, arriving in q state O
profound calm,