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CHAPTER XY,—(Cont'd)
A few paces farther something wizzod
.by ray oar. I thought I felt it touch me,
like the wing of a guat, and instinctively
threw up my hand and looked round.
"Steady, men; look to your front," came
the captains voice again, and
hen.
whiz, whiz, two more wasps sps enY
and I heard a low ohuokle from Patsy
Harrington, who marched in front ` of
no, and Peter Hogan, answering a whis-
pered inquiry from "Soft Joe," "did ye not
know what that web? Shure 'twasa
bullet."
"Right wheel. Forward; double!" sang
out the' captain's voice, and the next mo-
ment we were tumbling hurriedly into.
-the trenohes, behind a row Of battered
gabions, with the thunder of the Rue-
sian cannon diose }iron us, the "phit,
phit" of the bullets striking the earth
all round, the smoke drifting into our
faces, and the whistling dicks plunging
late the ground and scattering soil and
stones. in showers. •
Heads down; heads down," shouted the
.color.sergiant, as we crowded into our
,places, and. then came a tremendous arash
as a whiff of grape shot swept the gabion
from before me and sent up a cloud of
sand and twigs,
I got my head down pretty sharply, and.
was in no harry to lift it up again, until
I heard the color -sergeant yelling, "Now
• then, Davis, be alive. Stink up another
.gabion there"- and Pat Harington push-
-ed by me with a long basket in his arms,
to
Which he pushed inthe gap o
sed by
the enemy's shot, bobbing down immedi-
ately, and only just in time, as a musket
ball struck the wicker where his left
hand had been, and knocked the tuft off
his shako.
"Left files commence firing,' said the
captain, in a brisk, cheerful' tone, as he
hooked his sword, then added, "Here,
Corporal Allan, hand me your rifle, and
'Allan
try as shot,"
Allan banded over his rifle, and the
-captain aimed round the side of a gabion
And fired, Harrington fired at the same
instant, and turning to the captain said,
"Ye got .him,. sor; ye did, sor, begad;
and I did; no, begad, he was too sharp
for me, begnd."
By this time r had somewhat recovered
my presence of mind, and as I put on a
cap and cooked my rifle I glanced about
me.
Joyce stood close by my side, perfectly
.calm, in the _act of reloading his rifle,
which he has just fired. Corporal Allan,
standing behind the captain, was peep-
ing over his shoulder at the enemy. The
color -sergeant, a grizzled veteran, was
packing cartridges into his tunio between
the buttons and speaking to the men in.
front of him.
"Steady, men, don't waste Government
ammunition; come to the present, and
when you see a head, bang at it, and down
under cover. Mick Doyle, you'll be shot
before dinner -call. They nearly had you
that time. Man alive, keep your ugly
phiz out of sight. We want to shoot 'em,
not to frighten 'em. Leave me a space
there, Tommy Dowling, while I pot one";
and the sergeant shouldered his way to
the front, bobbed up, fired a shot. and
bobbed down again, while the other men
got by degrees to work, myself amongst
them. -
It was hot work. We were in the ad-
vanced parallel, not two hundred yards
from the Russian batteries. A new angle
had been made over -night, and on this
point, held by our 1' Company, the en-
emy
n- were within a few yards of him. The
andshe[ up an incessant fire of grape.officer was wounded. I should be no use
and shell. The dplitting crash of the if I returned. I saw the fierce, lowering
intervals
n ervals followed each other. st shortwlooks of the enemy, their gleaming bay -
battered
far hours. The gabions were onets, and then the figure of the mad,.
ling
into strewed over
'and their es, handsome girl on the sea-wall at Ports -
theof earth strewed over the ompa ey, mouth came into my mind, and I bound -
the men decimated, and our company,
heedless of the euemy's sharpshooters, ed to Pat's side, just as he pitched face
had. to concentrate their fire upon the of- forward into the snow.
fending guns. The shells from the Eng- Five minutes later we were back in our
retreating Rue-
n lies firing on the g
tree
our batteries ins our rear sailed d burst
sians. Nor did they return that night.
agour heads theike balls bf cterie and nurse But they had done enough. Young Simp-
t1ainst Russian batteries or inside
tl}e. _• embrasures, hurling fragments of mortally n was dwead, andd,note torave apeakats other
stone and splinters of iron in all direr- losses.
tions. The Russian musketry fire was I sought out poor Pat when I came off
close and sustained. The bullets pattered sentry was lying . on a scam -coat
and hissed and squealed. about us.eA spread on the snow, with his head on
dozen of our men went downndo in the first Joyce's knee. His face was very .white,
heir -Corporal Allan. wounded in the left
shoulder, the color -sergeant wounded in and his brows knitted, and hands clench-
the neck, five privates killed. Poor ed, as if in pain.
Downs was hit in the chest by a rico- 'He'll not last many minutes, poor fel-
ahet bullet, and lay writhing on the low, said Phil. "Try if you can make
ground for a long time, begging some of him understand."
us to put him out of his misery. Every I knelt down beside him and put a drop
instant a flat cap, a streak of brown face of rum upon his lips, then -asked him, in
and an eye would pop up behind the a clear and distinct tone, if he had any
parapet, and than would come a flash and message.
a crack, an answering shot from the His eyes opened slowly. Be knew me,
trench, and the Russian would disap- and tried to speak, but his mouth was
pear
a mfew minutes later the Russian fire
ost ceased, and not another shell was
thrown till after four o aloek, when the
right
arid
n sodilauioved ofourup
of
fire and Went
to dinner.
The dinner consisted of thin soap and
waxy potatoes; but we did not leave any
of it. Wo were hungry enough to have
eaten, as Pat said, "a washing of
clothes."
CHAPTER', 1EYL
After this 'first experience of war came
many days of heavy work and deadly fir-
ing in the trenches; many long nights on
picquet duty round the camps Or e along
the Woronzoff Road; many a desperate
struggle in the dark when the Russians
sallied out to destroy our trenches; and
many a sad hour as we at in the tents
and thought of the gaps in our roll.
The weather, too, became intensely
cold, so cold that we could scarcely sleep,
dog-tired as we were; and our clothing
wore out, and we grew thin, and gaunt,
and sickly, And so came Christmas.
On Christmas Eve we were on outbost
duty, our company, near the left of our
attack, by the Woronzoff Road. "Soft.
Joe" and I were companion sentries, mov-
ing on our short beat, and meeting once
in two minutes. The air was bitterly Cold,
and the ground deep in snow. Joe had,
wrapped his ankles and arms with straw
bands to 'prevent frost -bites, and I had
thrust ,ray chilled fingers under my cuffs
and was trotting to keep my blood in
circulation. It was near eleven o'clocic.
and pitch dark. Joe and I had justcome
together when a fireball was pitched from
the enemy'sbattery and fell close on our
right. We immediately threw ourselves
down and drawled away to our left, know-
ing from experience that a round shot
would follow. The round shot came, and
we sprang up to find a cloud of grey -
coated Russian infantry close upon as.
Bang went both our rifles together, and
without a second thought we ran for the
trenchos, the Russiansfollowing, with
hoarse yells, at our heels.
This was a common incident, Often we
were attacked three or four times in one
night, and our orders were to fire and
fall back on the picquet, who in turn
would fall bank fighting on.the trenches.
So it was this time. The Russians seem-
ed to be in force. Our picquet was driven
in, and after a sharp tussle the enemy got
possession of the first trench. But only
for a minute. The supports rushed up,
and the Russians were driven out again.
They fell back in good order for a hun-
dred yards, then halted, poured in a vol-
ley, and advanced at the char=ge.
Furious fighting; crash of musketry,
clank of steel; grunts and growls and
curses; clubbing of rifles, the heavy thud
of falling men, the sharp, agonized cry
of the wounded; a cloud of smoke, and
diabolical flickering of fire -flashings, and
once more we found ourselves falling back
firing and swearing, the enemy in close
pursuit.
It was at this moment that young
Simpson, waving his sword, and calling
us to come on, ran out of our ranks to-
wards the Russians, and fell about mid-
way. Instantly Pat Harrington' sprang.
towards him, as did two Russians. One
of these fired' at Pat, and missed. Pa
fired and, shot the Russian dead, then came to spit and curse Query' time our
striding over to the officer, he bayonet-
ed the other Russian, calling out, `Now weary eyes looked over the river mounds
thin, boys, this way for the spoorts." and swirling smoke to see the walls of
It was a critical moment. The enemy Sebastopol, still solid, still belching fire,
still manned by dense battalions of re-
solute and undaunted enemies..
Gloomy and despondent as I was in
temperament, I should have sunk almost
into a state of melancholy madness had
not Phil Joyce been by to rally me and
keep my soul alive with his brighthope
and kindly gaiety. For he never changed
nor saddened. Amid the fiercest hand-to-
hand
and to -
hand fighting, or the hottest storm of
missiles in the trenches, he: preserved his
cheerful calniness
i ue,
.
Starvation,g
cold, and danger, even'. hopfat
deferred
failed to sicken his brave heart. "A
man has but one life to live," he would
say, "and that is too short to mope in
and too insignificant to rear for." And
he was as good as his word, and no more
thought of shirking danger than of re-
pining over hardship.
"You are a wonder, Phil, I would say
to him; "I don't know how you keep your
cheerfulness. Are you never tired? Are
you never out of spirits?" •
And then he would laugh and go into
long • and -fervent rhapsodies about
"Amy." It was love that kept his heart
from failing. It was the thought of that
sweet face and pure soul that shone above
him like a star, so that his eyes never
heeded the murky hell and mad devil's
dance of murder that environed him.
When I have been hipped and sore, ready
to welcome death as a .friend, weary of.
the hateful present, and sick in the aha -
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whistle of the shell, i wd the wailing of
the bitter wind that 'gnawed our flesh;•
and drifted the 'frozen• suow knee-deep
into the weary tr„exiohbs.
No pen eau tell what our army suf-
fered in the Crimea, The cruel frost, the
insidious fog, the unrelenting wind; .hun
ger, disease,, wounds, and fatigue woo
down our health, our hope, our patience.
We were reduced to mere bags of bones,.
and the bags .all rents and patches. All
day long, as we toiled and fought in the.
trenches, we were raked and peppered
with grape, or pounded with shot and
shell, and scarcely a night went by with-
out sorties and surprises. The sufferings
'of the wounded were horrible. T have not
the heart to describe them, And those
of us who escaped unhurt were so weary
and overwrought that we had little love
of life left in us.
and all our batteries by land .and sea'
began to 'pour'• in a ceaseless and mur-
derous Are. For three days And three
nights this storm of fire and iron rained
upon flobastopol, and, t'houg% the Rus-
sians bore up with their olcl steadiness,
the hopes of our men rose as the boors
went bY,
The place could riot long endure such
a murderous cannonade. b10 citadel
could stand before it. Every day. the
British batteries alone threw VDU four'
thousand shells into the enemy's works;
every day the walls wore pourid d
by
more than thirty thousand shot, and the
m•usltetry fro from the trenches became
a 1 e'rfeot hail.
The Russians suffered' fearful losses, I
havb heard it said .that a thousand of
them fell every twenty-four hours, Their
cannon were dismounted, their guuners
blown to atoms, or crushed beneath the
carriages and masonry. As we peered
between our gabions, er looked down on
the fortress from the. Oathoart hill, we
saw the earth -works crumbling, the great
masses of stone rolling down. We saw
the roofs and ohimneys of the houses melt
and collapse, and ever and anon a stream
.of flame shot up through a cloud of deb-
ris with a sullen roar as some magazine
exploded, sending scores of poor crea-
tures to their last account. It was aw-
ful, horrible, The earth trembled, the
batteries shook, the wind was hot with
the breath of conflagration from the
town, and the great guns banged and
clanged • and belched out fire and death,
and the shrieking shells and whistling
balls rent the sulphurous, air, and through
it all the Russians kept up a desultory
fire, and went to their death on wall and
parapet without a flinch er murmur.
(To, be continued,)
Not that our enemies—poor creatures—
had less to bear. Certainly they were
better clothed and fed than we,. and per-
haps their sick and wounded might be
better cared for; but their loss by battle
and disease was frightful, and during that
fi=erce bombardment they could' have got
but little rest. "
They were very stubborn, and fought
both in the open and behind their works
with a stolid, steadfast bravery which
won the respect of nearly all our men..
Repulsed in every sortie; defeated in
every pitched battle; shut up in their
doomed fortress throughout that long • and
bitter winter, with enemies .all round
them on land .and ,aea.'atorn and shatter-
ed day after day by the cannon of the
fleets, and of a chain of batteries and
trenches five miles long they preserved
the same Steadiness and discipline, the
same cool . bravery and stoical endurance
to the end.
To us it seemed as though the end would.
never come. We sickened of the sight of
the driving sleet, and sodden snow, the
stench of blood and powder, the crackle
of musketry and roar of cannon. We
loathed the endless mixture of navvy -
work and shambles in the trenches, and
full of. blood.
Joyce, posted as near the terrible angle 'Pat," said, I, "the wife, the children—
as he could get, stood calmly, steadily, I will see them if I can."
and rbpidly loading and firing upon the
Russian embrasure opposite. Patsy Har-
rington put the shako of a dead comrade
on a ramrod .and held it up to draw the
'fire of the Russian sharpshooters, half a
dozen of his friends standing by to pot
the enemy while in the act of taking aim.
Ensign Simpson, with tears in his young
*yes, consoled and tended the wounded,
and I, with a bounding heart, and my
head spinning with excitement, stood
close up t0 Joyce and fired rapidly and
' not very carefully at the porthole from
which thie deadly grape was belching.
This went on until about noon, when a
great shell from our batteries burst with-
in .the Russian embrasure and dismount-
ed their most destructive gun. Our men
cheered, and one of them, a lad named
Searle, jumping up in his glee, was shot quaking and clammy, imagining that I
'through the head and killed. hear the dull booming of the cannon, the
A light came into the dull eyes. His dew of the hopeless future, I have looks
lips quivered slightly. I pressed his hand
—it was already cold -and put -the clotted at his radiant face and envied him the
hair from his forehead. In a few minutes love of that English girl.
be was dead.I gat almost to ,love her myself from
"Willie," said Joyce, as he laid the poor his enthusiasm; .I did get to reverence
fellow gently down, "you saw his wife, her, and to think of her dimly as a
and Simpson's mother. guardian spirit, something brighter and
"I did, I answered, "and this is war.,, better than mere flesh, yet warmer and
"God forgive us," said Phil, "it is • and nearer than the angels. And so strong
there have been widows made to -night on was this semi -superstitious feeling that I
both sides." would have gone .single-handed into the
hundred deaths to save' my friends life
CHAPTER XVII. —for her. Not that dy ng meant much in
I shall not dwell upon the recollection the Crimea. Life was', very cheap there,
of that terrible winter in the Crimea. The and many a man exposed himself to
very thought of it makes me shudder. To needless and desperate peril merely for
this day I dream about it, and start up the sake of excitement.
The winter passed away, and the grass
grew green above our English graves, and
the birds sang over the blood-soaked
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bright spring sky. And the Russians
still held on, and the struggle grew- fierc-
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I1 was an awful siege. Nearer the
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walls, deeper and longer stretched the
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dogged foe held on.
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ila
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were
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this engagement I was knocked senseless
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will do their best on fresh June
pasture, The grass is succulent
and palatable and the conditions
for a maximum milk flow are ideal.
These conditions, however, .do not
last very long.
The silo comes • as near to supply-
ing the ideal conditions as any-
thing that can be found, and it is
available every day in the year. It
provides a uniform feed for every
one of the twelve months.
Highly sensitive dairy cows resent
any sudden or violent change in
feed, and will show it by a decreas-
ed milk flow. The change from fall
pasture to dry. .feed is always fol-
lowed by a shrinkage in the milk.
In changing from the pasture to
the silage, the change is not ,so
great, and often the cows increase
the flow of milk when started on
silage. Several dairymen have re-
Gently made the statement that the
increased profits paid for the silo
the first ycttr. '
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IF you were to build two silos—one of wood, the other of concrete—side by side, and
en could. see them as they will look•after five years of service, you 'wouldn't have
then
to think i twice c e to decide which is the best material. In a few years more there
wouldn't be much of the original wooden silo left -the repairing you'd have to do would be
as troublesome and cost as much as the building of an entirely new one. But the passage of
five, ten, fifteen or even twenty years will make no difference to the hard -as -rock wall of the
concrete silo.
CONCRETE SILOS LAST FOREVER.
fire and lightning are alike defied by concrete. Von need no insurance against.ite
IND,' rain, g gter reason, The
silos are best for. another f be destroyed. Concrete .,
W destntctlon, because it `oa»no y ,"cures" concrete keeps the ensilage at an even temperature, so that it cures better, and therefore contains,
more food -value for your stook,
T 4': YOU CAN BUILD ONE YOURSELF
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