The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-04-04

.nyht. ne peagPs Il Home. ana every
tIiInG I'm etnff5J. Rut thss Bochsa
didn't ;mfn1 kcuesebG. and got very eafe.
Iess. 'Bllhe nie.. they were baIIy In.
suiting. uRd to. when using . certain
road. thrSw their caps Into the air a
taunf at onr heiplessness
~Casseii had been a telegrapher In
civil life and Joined up when war was
declared. Az for me. knew Morse,
learned 1t At. ne signaIers' school back
In 1910. With an officer In the obser-
walton post. we could not carry on the
kind OF conversation that's usual be
tween two mates. no we used the
Morse code. To send. one Of rs would
tap the trans4itter with his finger
nails. and the one on the other end
would get It through the receiver.
Many an hour was whIled awsy In this
manner passing compliments back and
forth. sa
I'm the observation post the ofYicer
used to sit for hours with powerful
pair. Of neid giasses to his eyes.
Through a cleveriy concealed ioophoie
he would scan thu ground behind the
German trenches. looking for targets
and finding many. This nficer. Cap
tain A--- by name. had habit Of
tnlking out loud to himself. Some
times he would. vent his opinion. same
ns common private does when he's
wrought up. Once upon a time the
captain had been on Old Peppers stan.
% he could cszss and blind in the most
approved style. Got to be sort Of 4
habit with him.
About six Thousand yards from MS.
behind the German lines. was road
In plain view Of our post For the last
three days Fsfs had brought comma
mics Of troops down this road IL. broad
daylight They we're never shelied.
Whenever this happened the captain
would froth ut the mouth and let out
volume Of Old Peppers religion
which used TO make me love him.
Every battery has range chart OF
which distinctive landmarks are noted,
with the range for each. isThese land
marks nrc called targets. and are num-
bercd- On our battery's chart. that
road wns called Target II. Range
COCO. degrees 30 minutes left ID css
battery consisted Of four 4-5' howit-
zers. and fired 35-pouud Fl. +. shell.
Az You know. H. T. means nigh ex-
plo-ive. ] don't like bummIns no my
own battery. but we had a record In
the division for direct hits. and our
ooys were Just pining away TOR a
chance to exhibit their skill In the
eyes Of Fritz.
-On the afternoon Of the fourth day
Of Fritz coutemptuous use of the road
mentioned the captain and were at
our posts as usual. Fritz was strafe-
Ing ms pretty rough. just like he's doing
now. The shells were playing leap
frog all through that orchard.
Il was carrying on n conversation
In our tap code with Casseli at the
Sther end. II ran something like this:
Say. casseil. how would ZOO Ike
20 be In the saloon bar OF ss,a Kings
Arms down itye lane with hottie os
Bass in front OF you. aud that Monde
bnrmaid waiting To al 'em up agninr
sCasscil had a fancy for that par
ticuiar blonde. The answer came back
In the shape Of a voiley Of cusses. I
changed the subject
After . while our talk vecred
round tn the way the Boches had been
exposing themselves on the road down
on the rhnrt as Target IL. What he
said about those Boches would never
have passed the rcichstng. though
believe II would have gone through
oar censor easily enough.
The bursting shells were making
such din thst I packed mp talking
and took 10 watching the captain. He
was ndxcfing around or an old sand
bag with the glass TO his eye. occz-
sionaify he would let out q gruut. and
make some remark couldn't hear on
account Of the noise. but guessed
what It was all right. Fritz was get
ting fresh sgnin on that road.
Ito BE Continued.)