The Brussels Post, 1917-12-6, Page 2STORING TUE C
(Concluded from last Week.)
The old oil should not stay in the
engine, so. drain it off and flush out
the crankcase with kerosene. Then/
put in a little fresh oil and run the •
engine a short while to insure a thin;
film of oil on the moving parts and
cylinder walls. You might as well
get all of the old oil and grease out
of the transmission, universal joints,
rear axle, dope cups, &e„ for if you
leave it until spring the lubricant'
may have become so gummed that it
is difficult to remove. No fresh.
grease need be put in until the car is
taken out.
The gasoline system needs atten-
tion. Drain off all the fuel in the main'
tank and take out the supply pipe and ;
force a length of soft wire through it.
to remove any foreign matter. If
there is a vacuum tank on the •ear
take it apart and thoroughly clean the;
insides. After draining the carburetor
bowl, put back the supply pipe. The
tires must be taken off for best re-
sults and the car supported on jacks
or wood supports. These supports
should be placed under the car as near
the spring supports as possible. Re-
move the tires from the rims and wash
them with water. Vulcanize all the
bad spots and fill the small holes with
tire putty. Give all the tires a good
coating of tale or mica. One of the
best ways to are for the tubes is to
put them in the tires, inflating them
just enough to round them out. Place
plenty of mica or tale on the tubes
also. Place the tires on top of each
other and cover them with burlap or
something similar. As far as pos-
sible have the room where the tires
are stored at about fifty degrees tem-
perature and where they will not be
exposed to strong light, or the action
of oil. If the rims are rusty, clean
and give them a coat of rim paint.
Give Thorough Cleaning
All accumulations of mud, dust, &c.,
should be removed by washing the
car with soap and water. Never put
the car away without doing this: the
varnish will suffer irreparable dam -
AR FOR WINTER.
age. After thoroughly washing, the
water should be dried off with a soft
sponge and then the whole polished
with a soft chamois leather. Pare
ticular attention should be given to
corners and crevices where water
might lodge.Bright sunlight causes
varnish to crack and deadens the
gloss, therefore fit a cloth cover over
the whole car when it is put away.
This also keeps out dust.
Standing for a long peroicl ina
folded condition the top is apt get
creased and damaged, So when stor-
ing the car put it up, thus allowing it
to remain in a smooth shape. Dust
the top well before covering it up and
if it is of leather give it a coat of
boiled linseed oil. The outside of a
pantasote top is best cleaned with
lukewarm water and castile soap. Put
the side curtains on also, after they
have been cleaned. This will give
them a chance to straighten out and
help keep the upholstery elean.
To Preserve Upholstery
THE .GRATITUDE OF CHILDREN.
Extracts From the Diary of Member
of Relief Commission..
The work of feeding and clothing
the whole of Belgium and Northern
France, carried out by the famous
American Commission for Relief in
Belgium, was perhaps the greatest
work of humanitarianism . ever suc-
cessfully carried out, In The World's
Work, Mr. Robinson Smith, a member
of the Commission, publishes some
Jul 4. Independence Day.-- have
been looking over some of the et
OCTOPUS:DEADLY
SEA ANIMAL
VALUABLE PORCELAIN CARGO
FISHED UP.
Its Eight Tentacles Have. a Length
Of Fully One Hundred
Feet.
The octopus is ordinarily a rare ani
POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION.
Neceseary to Restore and Make Re-
paration For Wastage.
Various master minds and men of
practical experience are lending as-
eistance in solving the many 'probe
lems to be met and solved after the
war. To The World's Work, Dr, G. B.
Hunter, chairman of the famous ship-
building firm of Swan( Hunter &
Wigham Richardson, Ltd., of Great
FROM OLD SCOTLAND
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM Il %R
BANKS AND BRAES.
What ie Going On in the Highland;
and Lowlands of Auld
Scotia,—
AWAITING WORD
TO STI'tp M TRENCH
TORTURE OF 'EXPECTING SIG2
TO ADVANGE. a'
Henri Barbusse'Graphicelly Describes
Britain, contributes an article entitled Iln•ry Colin- Mll}er delivered the Soy of Accomplishment After'
further appealing extracts from his "The Reconstruction of Prosperity." first of the Euing lectures en Masi°, Goring Through Hell."
diary. Here are two select}ons;iy He holds that when the war is over
the Royal Technieal College, alas-
July p I h we have to restore and make repara- pow• Iienri Barbuese, well known French
1 lettersthe tion for all the •wastage of our wealth. A garden party organised by Mrs. writer, has written a graphic account
mal in British waters. But in e s ` hat ie donfe well and uickl r iii ellier house on
of thanks from school-children—some year 1900 countless hordes of these ,Unl s t q y, Buchanan, of D p p , of the, storming of a German trench in
of them touching, and nearly all ex-
creatures invaded the English Chap -we must after a while—and especially_ behalf. of soldiers' charities, reaheed which he took part. In gripping lan
01 must the oorer eo le among us—.
pressed so well. Wel, swarming along the' shores in p p, p c ed' £1,000• P who guage he dose ibes the torture of. wait-
We have the sweet consolation of For t e time be- suffer long and be greatly pm h .I Private Gavin Dufl'ield,.R.S ,, ing for the signal to advance, of run-
marauding armies. h
thinking that on the other side of the th nearly destroyed the local We ought therefore, after the war, to was awarded the Military Medal, lost Hing• out in .the opoii, against terrible
Sponge off the upholstery with a
solution of one part of pure ammonia
to Wino parts of water, then rinse with
clean water. This will remove the
dirt. After it is dry, buff it with a
soft woollen rag. A good leather
dressing properly applied at this time
will also add to the appearance of the
job. Do not use gasoline for clean-
ing leather trimming.
All the nickel plated parts, such as
the lamp rims, steering wheel spider,
dash instruments, levers, &r.,, should
be cleaned and polished wit a metal
Polish. A thin coat of vaseline is
then applied over the bright surfaces
to keep them from getting dull or
rusting. Do the same with exposed
pelts o£ the power plant, such as the
magneto coupling, spark and throttle
levers, &e. Roll up the rubber floor
mat and after cleaning it put it with
the tires. The car is now in good
shape for putting away and the only
thing left to do it to slip the cover
over it, after having first protected
the upholstery with covers of some
kind.
TALES FR031 RUINED FRANCE.
Showing the Undaunted Spirit of the
- Desolate Inhabitants.
The following are stories told by a
member of an American body of work-
ers who are trying to relieve the dis-
tress of the people of devastated
France:
"A French young woman from the
rear came to visit her old mother, who
had held the homestead all - through
German occupation. The daughter
was wringing her hands and saying,
'Quel malheur!' because the Germans
had blown up the house, burned the
furniture in the road and sawed the
trees in the orchard. 'It's terrible!'
she cried. But the old mother spoke
upt 'Why unhappy, my girl? All is
not lost. I have kept two chairs.'
And with an air of dignity, she said:
'Be seated!'
"In Douilly two old women were
walking along. They had a hand rake
made of twisted wire and wood.' 'Our
garden tools were taken by the Ger-
mans,' they said, 'but we have prayed
the good God to send us the seeds and
have made the ground all ready.'
They had even constructed a kind of
wooden spade.
"There's an old retired shoemaker
and his wife who used to own two
houses. They lived in one; and the
rent of the other, with the products
of their garden, kept them. All is I
destroyed by the Germans—not a stick'
of furniture left,, and only the clothes;
on their backs. But the old couple'.
have the spirit of old. France. "If 1
had tools and leather,' said the old
man, `I could support my wife.' We
got them for him. He is cobbling for
all the folks, and doing well. But I
call it a sporting spirit in the old man
to begin life fresh at the age of '711"
The Family Mansion.
Jemmy was continually boasting of
his "family mansion in the ould coun-
try." Pat, who came from the same
place in Ireland, became very tired of
it, and With withering scorn exclaim-
ed:
"Yer family mansion is it, Jemmy?
Bedad, I could have reached down
,the chimney an' put the foier out wid
me handl"
BRITAIN HAS FOUND HERSELF.
Army Has Reached Pinnacle of Effi-
ciency, Says U. S. Writer. ,
The British army has arrived; after
two years of a magnificent struggle
against unpreparedness, the tendency
toward muddle and hard circumstance
it is reaching its pinnacle of effi-
ciency, says a writer in a United
11 }s the general
States weekly.
impression one brings back now from
that temporary transplanted England
that occupies North-western France.
This, the manliest race in the world,
has made its manliness efficient. The
machinelike efficiency of the German
army, which so overawed and alarmed
us Americans who saw von Kluck
pass through Belgium, is matched and
overmatched now by a less formal, less
machinelike efficiency, all the more ef-
fective because it gives more play for
individual intelligence. Above all,
there is magnificent morale—a univer-
sal resolution, animating all ranks, to
see this hard, distressing business
through to a victorious end. -
Britain the imperturbable, Britain
who knows how to wait without nerv-
ousness, to endure defeat without
fluster, has found herself,
Famous Relics of Caledonia.
The recent marriage of Lady Mand
Cavendish, daughter of the Governor-
General, to Captain Mackintosh, re-
calls some interesting facts concern-
ing May Hall, the Mackintosh's place
in Inverness-shire. The chief features
of the house are the hall and library,
,In the hall are curious relics of Prince
Charles' time, and in the library stands
the table on which the Prince dined
before Culloden. Also in the library
are some famous swords, two of which
are said to have belonged to royal an-
cestors. One of these was given by
Pope Leo X. to Ring James V., father
of Queen Mary Stuart, The gold
watch of the latter is also preserved
in the library. ,lames V. presented
the sword to The Mackintosh, and the
other belonged to Charles I, the last
Ming born in Scotland. Every morning
the piper at Mpy Hall marches around
the house playing "Johnny Cope," and
he does the same after dinner.
lig- ey g Y his right arm' in the Glen arnoec
ocean exists a population whose heart lobster and crab fisheries, to satisfy: :greatly increase our -exertions and our g g fire, and of the happiness of the men
bleeds at the sight of our mss- their greedy appetites; and on theactivities—increase thve output of our steel. works. when they find each other safe after
fortunes." French side of the strait they were workshops, Hills, shipyards and farms. D. W. Bar ie, assistant supero ++going through hell."
"My mother has wept tears of joy thrown up on the beaches in such We must so organize and so work •tendent of the Caledonian Railway, has "It is evening in the Champagne,"
patin learning that unknown hearts sync- numbers after storms that they hada as to.produce •our industrial maximum. been appointed traffic superintendent -writes Henri Barbusse. "The men are
the lastc. We were without bread for to be 'removed by cartloads for the We must, if we are to prosper, do not at Dundee. waiting in the dugouts of the .first
the three weeks." the public health. I only what we have done before but The Edinburgh garish Council have line trenches; wondering when the or-
sake of p agreed to send four delegates to the
"Do not forget that at the side of o must greatlyincrease it.40 shall
our well -beloved King hang the col- Cause of the Plague. have to meet anything upto 400 mil- der to charge against the enemy will,
was •
attrib- conference on taxation of land values be given. They are anxious and nerv-
i
Err-
ors of America." Apparently the scourge I lions per annum of taxation above the in Edinburgh,
"In return for .your charity I send utable to a series of hot summers and standard of 1018-14. The change from At the annual mooting of the Stir- ous, but try to conceal their real f el-
you as many thanks as there were lit- mild -winters, which encouraged the the war credit and war expenditure to ling Gundry, ex -Bailie John Steel was ings by telling funny stories and
tle sacks on the boat that I say;." multiplication of the unpleasant ani -peace credit and peace retrenchment elected Dean' of Guild for the eleventh laughing heartily. They know that
"I do not know if you are as large teals—usually restricted in their range !will be terribly hard and dangerous. consecutive year. la the next moment they may be fac
as I am, es clever at playing marbles, to warm waters. An old phenomenon
We have to restore and increase our The death took place recently at ing death, but there is always hope,
if you go to school as I do. What 1 incidental to the plague was the find- shipping and' our foreign export trade.
Conniemar of David McNieoll, who They have been spared before, perhaps
know is thatyou are all charitable." ing of immense numbers of minute ! We have to assist in repairing the de- acted as Mr. Asquith's agent when he A voice is
they may be spared again
i "They tell me that America is in- "poulps," not long hatched and hardly t et}on of wealth of all kinds in f tcontested East Fife heard in the neighboring trench.
deed lovely, and I should greatly wish bigger than grains of rice.
to see it. For the moment I still have . In the Mediterranean the octopus is 'Didn't you hear? The alarm w
fears of mines and submarines which regularlyd forfood.
s ru firs y ,
Belgium, France and the' rest of Eu- By a sale of gifts and donations i listen, said one of the mens.
t rope. • over £200 has been obtained in aid of sounded!'
h' h fished for and use oo . We shall have to meet, all over the the work of the War Hospital Supply sounded!'
Are you crazy?'
might blow me up in the air," Pitcher -shaped earthen pots attached world, much keener competition than Committee, Jedbargh.
I "We the see:eel-girls of Mignault, at intervals to a long line are lowered
ever before in our foreign
trade. We , The Call To Arms.
have learnt a few English words to to the bottom and buoyed, to a palled may have to meet foreign competition is "Just their shadow appearsi.n. Eire
thank you in your own language for ; to the surface a few days later and in our home trades. We have lost It is not generally known- that cud Win of the du out and somebody
g y opo g g
your generous aid." examined. It is not uncommon to find our supremacy in the production of '
ms!' -
"I scarcely dare address myself to every pot occupied by an octopus. The iron and steel, and before the war had
den cold sometimes causes the death cries `Toiarevai
are ba}ted but the creatures e -
fallen from the t to the third of thousands of fish in the shallow wa- Quiet -prevails. We h a a all tch
the President•, especially one of a great! jugs notfir@ place.tors of the tropics and subtropics. come dumb. We get up anb ti etch
country. I know well your name ,to- being soft -bodied and a prey to many Our total imports were enormously Many species are so chilled as to be -our weary bones and go out 1„,str-tie
day; it is for me the synonym of enemies, eagerly seek shelter in them, greater than all our exports. come Eel less and are either killed The roar bf the guns is 3 ,
father." 1 By a curious reversal of this meth -may p trench.
It be wise to refuse to permit directly by drowning or' are -washed .frightful. One man looks at the
cr
I would wish to be neat to you Used To Recover Cargo. proven umpnlg a roar , as we although the temperature of the water of the men are sitting quietly in the
! d b lidHowColdAffectsF'h
"I will keep your pretty gift in se-, od, octopuses have recently been usedthe dumping of surplus foreign goods ashore in a comatose state. The pheno-other, no word is t,poken, but the eyes
et in memory of you." I in Japan to fish for pots. at low prices at home, But we cannot meson is known locally as freezing, tell everything: We 'ere ready; some
t d abroad; and
others and embrace you with all my About a century and a quartos ago are dependent on foreign trade both may be several degrees above the IMud, others are resting their arms
heart, but I do not know how. Only ! a large sailing junk left a Korean port for the sale of our manufactured goods freezing point. During very
severe; on their rifles. 1 study the pale, deep -
lined sweet thoughts fly and repose upon' with a cargo of very precious ponce- and for the import of raw materials cold spells, too, great numbers of fish i ly lined but simply human beings.
your charming heads." lain consigned to the Emperor of Ja- for our food,' we cannot change our are often killed along the - Atlantic
"If in the future your country has ! free trade system for a s stem ofpro- "coast as far north as New Englaand. I They are pe adventurers or warriors.
need of defenders,it can count on pan. She was sunk in a storm in the y ;They are peasants and-Workm n in
Inland Sea not far from Kyoto. tection. Contact with cold air causes the luster: uniform and were not made for
me." I Naturally the incident wa.8 regarded Tariff Refor'mi-yes; Protection, Hol to cool rapidly, and the great expanse slaughter. They are awaiting the or-
•
"We have indeed a river here called as 'closed. The location of the wreck It would not help our export trade and of shallow' water round ube Florida i der to die.
the Escaut, but since some time ago was precisely known, but to get at it would not enable us 'to pay for our Keys and the many shallow bay at
nine bridges have been built across .riali hopeless, inasmuch as it lay at a import trade. Tariff Reform and Pro- are little affected by tides offer fav- Each one of them knows what it
it, tile enemy succeeded in passing." i depth much too great to be reached
lection are not the same thing. It }s orable conditionsforrapid cooling. Ac- l means; ,h Hoots that he is to expose
October 12.—As I came in about ten by divers. i quite consistent for a believer in Free cording to the Monthly Weather Re- his head, his breast, his stomach and °.,
to -night a motor stood in front of the ,
Let us admire, then, the idea of an Trade to be also a Tariff Reformer, view, the greatest "freezing" of filto
ch his arms and legs to, rifle balls, They apartment of Mr. Gibson, the Secre- shrapnel and to the bayonet. They
tary of the American Legation. I -was d f ft th + are a quer peaceful lot—not bandits
told that he would call for the Span-
ish Minister, and that they were going
to try to save a woman's life.
October 13.—Miss Cavell was shot
at six this morning. Gibson and the
Spanish Minister pleaded till after
midnight, but it was of no avail. The
' officer ordered drinks, saying: "These
discussions make one thirsty."
Some say that Miss Cavell fainted
; and a German officer, hearing of it,
said: "Some more good German bullets
' saved." But this was not so—she did
not wince. The Belgian shot with
her fainted. The whole country is
ablaze,
I r
Natal's Gift lo Great Britain.
Advices by the last mail give the
report of a mass meeting held in the
Town Hall for the purpose of submit-
ting a resolution in favor of the re-
lcent proposal to send 10,000 tons of
foodstuffs to Britain as a gift from
Natal. The Mayor presided. All the
'speakers emphasized the sentimental
value of the gift apart from its prae-
I tical value, as it would show Britain
that Natal was determined to stand by
the Motherland to the end. It was also
pointed out that the movement would more than 200 feet
be an example to perhaps hundreds of
then arts of the Empire, and thus, Retort Scottish.
ingenious Jap fisherman, to whom it•I And how are we to meet all the that d in Florida Oat
„
a ever occurred
in ori a was is
' occurred that he might fish for the lost Pressing needs o "after a war of January 12, 1886,when the lowest
' porcelain. He fastened a live octopus By frabie}dal strife between a been temperature ever observed in Key or barbarians or savaged looking for
to a long line and sinker, lowered it to and labors Shall men who have been West, 41 sieg., was reached. Thou- another's Blood. I can seethatthey
'the wreck and waited. When at length fighting side by side as brothers dui- sands of benumbed fish were washed are tortured by the suspense, that
the animal was drawn to the surface ing the war fight each otherafterthe they are in anguish, that they are
ashore, and tons of them were gather -
it The vase, with it a wonderful vase. war? wondering whether they will live
ed for fertilizer. Near Key West, bar -
pe of course, belonged to the •By the sacred memory of the fallen, rounds and even sharks succumbed through this terrible night. No one
Emperor, who directed that the fishing let ereoe be side class selfishness The who has not seen men ready for a
and all sorts of small fish` as well as
should be continued on a more ex- either one or the other. charge can appreciate what it means.
on
spirit of co-operation, c conches and shellfish diedby the thou-
' tensive and systematic scale, utilizing P P confidence and sand. A great many fish were merely "They still wait. It seems like
the same method. Aa a rtfsult, accord- . brotherhood in all ranks of our army, numbed by the cold, and, if not wash eternity. The sun'has set and a weird
ed ashore, revived when the weather 'lankness is creeping over the sad
grew warmer, Such cold spells are •landscape. Then rain falls in tor-
rents to add to the gruesome picture
ing to last accounts, a considerable the way in which all our offieers real -
part of the valuable cargo had been ize and admire the fine—the magnifi-
recovered. cent -spirit of our men, and the loving not unmitigated evils, for they are
A Spread of 200 Peet. appreciation and. admiration with said to eradicate a parasite that of an atmosphere of tragedy.
In 1909 one of these monsterpoulps which our men speak of their et t officers, fects oysters, and they do little, if any, There is more time spent in wait -
which
are beautiful and inspiring. Let there ing and then hand ,grenades are pass -
was thrown, up on the FloridaRbeach be something of the. same spirit among 'Phe Dae ed around to the men. Each receives
1 not far from St. Augustine. It was , us at home when peage..00mes. y •• two Then the order 'Forward!' is
dead and had been so knocked about by
I call my years back; I, grown old, heard, and we know that it is our
storms that nothing was left of it save I WHALE STEAK. Recall them day by day;
turn
the main trunk of the body, the tenta- � " And some aro dressed in cloth o' gold "We spring out of the trench and
Iles and even the internal organs Flesh is Ver.; Much Like Beef, Al- And some in humble gray,
being gone. But the tough muscular though the Color is Darlcer Red. into the darkness. We expect to be
"hull" cast up by the waves wast And those in gold glance scornfully greeted by a deadly fire, but, strange,
twenty-one feet long and five feet in The seas contain not only an inex- Or pass me unawares; the thunder of the guns suddenly
diameter. It weighed six tons! ,haustible supply of food in thc form But those in gray come close to me ceases. A wave of joy creeps over
Professor 'Verrill, the eminent na of fish and crustaceans•but also vast And take my hands in theirs. us; and, yet, perhaps, the enemy is
turalist of Yale,named it Octopus gi- . quantities of an almost neglected form—Theodosia Garrison only luring us o1 to destruction.
gantous, and estimated that its eight of nutriment, the ocean mammals, or _— "Don't use your hand grenades un-
+nn+nntae inial: have been fully 100 feet warm-beeoded animals, such. as whales, Japs..Building Big Ships. til the last minute, shouts our cap-
tain.
long, giving the animal a "spread" of porpoises aha uoipnms.
The United States Bureau of Fish-
1
ish Details of Japan's work to build a
cries advocates the use of the 'neat great merchant marine fleet are con-
v of these animals for human food. tained in an article just printed in the
Their flesh is real "meat" and not East l West News. "In the eleven
o p
although a mere drop in the ocean, A British military journal relates +'fish" it is very much like beef, al- large shipyards in Japan 180. vessels,
would ultimately prove of a greater an amusing story of a Highlander though the color is a darker red, each exceeding 1,000 tons, and with an now. Shells are bursting all mound
significance. Eventually the Mayor who, on being shown over a man -o'- Throtfgh the efforts of U.S. Bureau of aggregate tonnage of 048,034, are on us. The fingers of my right hand are
submitted the resolution, which was war for the first time in his life, was Fisheries it is probable that fresh, the ways, the article says. "Many of singed by the fire of an exploding
carried unanimously, The proceed- keenly interested fn all he saw. The corned and canned whale meat can these vessels are ready for launching, shell and I dram niv pint, only to stoop
ings, which throughout were most en- marines seemed particularly to fine- soon be obtained ih the market,
thusiastic, were commenced and con- press him, and going up to one he
chided with the singing of the Nation -Whales are taken at several shore
al Anthem. pointed to the badge on the marines, stations on• the Pacific Coast, where
cap and asked him what it was. The the blubber is rendered for oil and
marine, anxious to score off the vis- the bones and flesh are used to some
itor, looked at him in surprise, extent for fertilizer; the skin seems
"Don't you know what it is?" lie to be adapted for tanning into leather,
asked. "Why, that's a turnip, of
course."
"Mon," replied the Scot, impatient
ly, "I was no' axing aboot yon held,"
d
Creamed Beets.—Cook beets until
tender. Skin and chop into quarter
inch cubes. Make a white sauce, Sea-
son. Add the beets and reheat.
Capture of the TrtaCh.
•"Just then a curtain of fire rises be-
fore us and the bullets whistling past
our ears. We are running forward
A good candy for sending overseas
is made from three cups of brown
sugar, one cup maple syrup, one cup
milk, butter half the size of au egg,
a pinch of salt and a pinch of cream
of tartar. Boil until you get a fairly
flim ball when you try the mature
in cold water. Beat until fairly thick.
Pour Into tins lined with waxed paper
or into candy boxes lined in the same
way. -
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while others have just been laid -and pick it up again. The fire becomes
down," so strong that we become blinded by
it; our nen become separated, none
The energetic automobile salesman knowing just where he is going. Here
had just delivered the fair customer and there in the mist I could discern
forms of men felling heavily to the
her new car, and everything was love- ground, and now and then above the
The Pacific -Coast stations take a con- ly. roar I heard tlieheartrending cry of
siderable number of the animals, each He had scarcely entered the office, some one who had, received his death
of whichfurnishes about five tons of however, when he recieved a telephone wound,
excellent meat, Last May one whal- call. She said:— Forwardl" shouts our Captain.
ing company placed fresh whale meat "I thought you told; me that this car -„We are roofing like mad mow.
on sale 1n Seattle and Portland at ten was a self-starter'(” Sometimes we stumble over mthol now.
cents a pound, and many of the hotels "So it is," replied the salesman.
odies
and restaurants served it under its "Nothing of the sort, I have to of our comrades, but there is no stop -
proper name. ' push a button to make it go." ping. Our breath is coming fast, our
hearts are thumping wildly in our
breasts, our blood is coursing eut
breakneck speed through our veins,
We ire now as men possessed; we '
His Mistake!
have forgotten all our.fenrs and all
we want now is to meet the enemy
face -to face; we are lusting for blood.
"The German trench is before us,
and we all plunge in; but the Germans
have flown; the trench is empty. We
stop•for breath and look abont us,. It
'seems all like dream now and we
greet each other like happy childecn.
"What, yaa, my friend? Thank
God, you are unhurt. Have you seen
one captain? What has become of
him? God, what must we not ail go
throughl"
"We remain in the trench and tell
our experiences. The cries of the
wounded have ceased, but the roar of
the guns has ineteased, We no longer
pay any attention to the noise. Wo
are tired, very tired, [aid There we sit
at the bottom of the trench, waiting
for a wink of sleep.
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