The Carlisle independent., 1918-10-10


 there in the hole and he died. Shortly afterward the fire Slackened Il little and got out and started toward our lines. But 1 remembered about the ether wounded man I had passed , when l was carrying Philippe Pierre. 50 I began hunting for him, and after 2 long time I found him. He was still alive. His chest was all smashed in and he was badly cut up around the neck and shoulders. I picked him up and started back. but ran into some harbed wire and had to % around. l was pretty tired by this time and awfully thirsty and 1 thought if l did not rest q little bit I could never make il. I was so tired and nervous that 1 did not care much whether I did get back or not. and the wounded garby was grooming all the time.
 So when I thought the shells were coming pretty thick again. got into shell hole and it was the same one l had left not long before. The dead garby was there just as I had left him.
 The wounded one was bleeding all over. and my clothes were just soaked with blood from the three men, but most of all from him. There was some of my own blood on me, too. for when l was knocked down by the shell my nose bled and kept bleeding for long time. but. of course. that was nothing compared to the bleeding of the others.
 The worst of all was that he kept grooming for water, and it made me thirstier than I had been, even. But | there was not drop of water any where and I knew there was no use searching any bodies for fasks So we just had to stick it out. Pretty soon the wounded man quit grooming and was quiet, and I knew he was ] going to die too. It made me mad to think that I had not been of any use in carrying these two men around, but if 1 had gone on with either of them it would have been just the same l they would have died and probably l would have got it, too. When I fig ured it out this way I quit worrying about 1t, only wished the fire would let up.
 So the other man died, and there were two of them in the hole. I read | the numbers on their identification disks when shells burst near enough so that I could see them, and after a while got back to our lines and rolled | in. I could not remember the num- bers or the names by that time, but a working party got them, along with others. so it was all right.
 | My clothes were a mess, as I have | said, and I was so tired I thought I 1 could sleep for week, but l. could not stand it in my clothes any longer. | It was absolutely against regulations, but I took off ali my ciothes-the | blood had soaked into the skin-and wrapped myself In nothing but air i and went right to sleep. did not sleep very well, but woke up every once in a while and thought I was in the hole again.
 | During the night they brought up i water, but I was asleep and did not 1 know it. They did not wake me, i but two men saved by share, ! though usually in a case like that it i was everybody for himself and let the l last man go dry. You could not blame l them. either, so 1 thought it was ] pretty decent of these two to save my share for me. believe they must i have had hard time keeping the 1 others off of it, to say nothing of them selves. for there really was not more than enough for one good drink all 1 around. It tasted better than anything 1 have ever drunk. Go dry for 24 hours in the hottest weather you can find. do nights work like that, and come 10 i'll the morning with a tin cup full of muddy water being handed