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The Bois des Forges has been a battle ground since the war began, with trenches in front and miles of barbed wire, machine gun nests and concrete pillboxes inside. A frontal attack on such a stronghold apparently meant suicide, but the Illinois men, led by Col. Sanborn and Col.
I've got office hours, you know, and I'd better get back to my pillboxes. Just excuse an old man who is too talkative sometimes, but remember that what I've said to you is not my own old-fashioned notion, but a little boiled-down philosophy from the writings of the greatest modern scientists." "Good-bye, Doctor MacFarland. I'll not forget it. It has answered a lot of questions in my mind."
Then, apparently satisfied for the moment, he applied himself once more to the nasalsyringe and the pillboxes. On Gootes, however, the consequence of the landing must have been much the same as on me. He too capered and sang and his dialect renderings reached a new low, such as even a burlesqueshow comedian would have spurned. "Tis the old sod itself," he kept repeating, "Erin go bragh.
Artillery bombardments by the Allies have so devastated certain regions that trenches have become impossible; hence the concrete pillboxes. "Lucky I've some gasoline left," thought Erwin, surprised but not unduly alarmed. "It's a race now between me and the bullets." Instantly he put on high speed, at the same time rising in zigzags while the bombardment continued increasingly.
You are its founder and its autocrat, it lives on your money, for everybody knows that what these sisters make wouldn't buy their pillboxes, and now, having run it all these years, and having brought yourself and Sylvia to the greatest grief by it, it is your duty to put an end to it, to abolish it. "'Abolish the House of Martha? she cried, with her great eyes blazing at me.
The bombardment had broken the banks and dammed the streams, and rivers, instead of flowing, overflowed. Tanks became useless, and for men and animals there was as much risk of being drowned as shot. The Germans were not immune from the weather; their counter-attacks were impeded, and their low-lying pillboxes were often traps for death by drowning.
The latter are carefully arranged on an adjustable shelf, and Créso takes his place behind them, while in his rear a perfect chemist's shop of flasks, bottles, and pillboxes is disclosed. Very soon his singer ceases, and in the purest Tuscan dialect the very utterance of which is music the Florentine quack-doctor proceeds to address the assemblage.
Compare his letter on parting from his friends at Edinburgh, quoted by Lady Holland: "All adieus are melancholy; and principally, I believe, because they put us in mind of the last of all adieus, when the apothecary, and the heir-apparent, and the nurse who weeps for pay, surround the bed; when the curate, engaged to dine three miles off, mumbles hasty prayers; when the dim eye closes for ever in the midst of empty pillboxes, gallipots, phials, and jugs of barley-water."
Seeing the man so often, and interested always in his manner as much so, indeed, as the peasants or contadini, who bought his vials and pillboxes without stint I became interested to know the main features of his life; and, by the aid of a friend, got some clues which I think reliable enough to publish.
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