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Its situation, on top of the mine-dump piled against the precipitous mountainside, permitted no chance to take a step except upon the treacherous rolling stones of the dump; but we bore with its manifest disadvantages for the sake of its one high redeeming virtue its entire freedom from the fog which we dreaded for the sick man.
We stopped at 11.30 and filed back down the communication trench through Potijze Wood. Coming round the corner here near Bottle Wall we were shelled rather badly; the shells were bursting very near us one within six yards but none of my party were hit. An R.E. officer close by was wounded. We got back to Potijze dump at 12 midnight. I reported to Captain Andrews, who was there in a dug-out.
By running across the fields that were on the highest part of the road Tom was able to get to his barn without a boat, and soon he returned with the cart and Sable. It took all hands to get the henhouse on the cart, but this was finally done, and away went Sable up the road with the queer load after him in the dump cart. "You had better put it up on the hill this time," Peter told them.
He took a small fragment of bluish-gray ore from his pocket and showed it to me, saying, quietly, "I can prove it now; this is Lawrenceburg ore: I handle and test it every day, and I am perfectly familiar with it. I picked this piece up a few minutes ago on your dump."
"Sorry, Mike. Techniques of brainwashing are a bit out of my line. Beside, Confusion say those who run from wolf pack have better chance if they leave some meat behind for the wolves to fight over. I've already spoken to Captain Nails about it. We intend to dump them overboard just twenty minutes before the scuttlebug arrives. In suits, of course," he added.
"The road agents make us dump our fire," I said, "and yet they haven't cut the wires in either direction. I can't see how they can escape us." "What fun!" cried Miss Cullen. "I don't see what difference either makes in their chance of escaping," said Lord Ralles.
It is about time that the vast Territory lying toward the East should be aroused from its Lethargy. Go as far as you like." The two were foxy. For monetary and real-estate Reasons they did not give it out cold that they were making a final Getaway. They planned to have Gusta remain at the dear old Dump as a Caretaker, but it was merely a Bluff.
There was no attempt at historical costume, but it was understood that Slorkey, with his cowhide boots and rusty plated spurs, his long, swallow-tailed blue coat, and threadbare chapeau with a cock's tail feather in it, mounted on his seventy-five dollar piebald mare, promoted from the plough and "dump cart," was the representative of General Washington.
My diary of July 10 states: "Working party in the evening with Sergeant Clews carrying ammunition from a dump near White Château to a Brigade dump further on to the left, behind Congreve Walk. A very quiet night." On July 11 I wrote home as follows: "We had Major Brighten and Captain Blamey in for dinner yesterday evening.
Dirty shops and stores, it says; dirty saloons and dance halls weak lungs can't stand them." "Let's get out of here." "Aw, look! How pretty she is in this first picture; and look at her here nothing but a stack of bones on a stretcher. Aw! Aw!" "Come on!" "Courage is very important, it says. Consumptives can be helped and many are cured. Courage is " "Come on; let's get out of this dump.
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