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Three of our women officers in the Toul Sector had slept for three weeks in a hay-stack, in an open field, to be near the men of an ammunition train taking supplies to the front under cover of darkness.

And with that he nodded his hay-stack of a head three times at me, and going to the hedge-root he laid hold of the top of a young poplar and turned him about, keeping the stem of it over his shoulder. Then he set himself to pull like a horse that starts a load, and presently, without apparently distressing himself in the least, he walked away with the young tree, roots and all.

"Blimy," says one lad to t'other, "'ere's one of our observation bladders the 'Un 'as brought down." Chestnut. I heard the Officer boy telling the Troop Sergeant that he'd buy a hay-stack some day and try to burst you, Tubby. The Sergeant bet him a month's pay it couldn't be done. Tubby. Just because I've got a healthy appetite Brown. Healthy appetites aren't being worn this season, Sir bad form.

"I suppose the convoy are not yet collected, Swinburne; and you recollect there's no want of French privateers in the channel." "Very true, sir." "When were you up the Baltic, Swinburne?" "I was in the old St George, a regular old ninety-eight; she sailed just like a hay-stack, one mile ahead and three to leeward.

Even if Abdul and an organized search-party were after him now they might as well be searching for a needle in a hay-stack. No one knew which of the thousand gullies he had ascended and no one could track camel-pads or flat rubber soles over bare solid rock, even if given the starting-point.

"You are green as ever, Bill," said Jem, who, nevertheless, was full of his own kind of sympathy for our hero; "you might as well look for a needle in a hay-stack as for the owner of a purse in New York. The only way is to advertise it, and make whoever answers describe it. But if I were in your place I would keep it.

There was the dog sure enough the same mealy-coloured mongrel, tied to a stake, yapping, and making frantic little runs on a bit of rusty chain; whirling round and round the stake, then standing quite still, and shivering. I went up and spoke to it, but it backed into the hay-stack, and there it stayed shrinking away from me, with its tongue hanging out.

The occasion was when, returning from a year's "exile in a tub," a converted collier that "sailed like a hay-stack," he fitted out the Pallas at Portsmouth and could obtain no volunteers.

His servant, a sapper, was stowing the kit in the racks and under the seat, with the help of a portable acetylene lamp which burnt with a hard white light in the darkness, a darkness which you could almost feel with your hand. "I say, B ," I asked as I contemplated a hay-stack of things, "what's the regulation allowance for an officer's luggage? I forget." "One hundred pounds.

The train was running through a flat, treeless plain of swampy aspect, covered with green grass; from time to time there was a poor hut, a hay-stack, on the uninhabited, monotonous stretch. The grey sky kept on resolving itself into a rain which, at the impulse of gusts of wind, traced oblique lines in the air. Laura had waked and was in the dressing-room.