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You say so, teacher, while going through the daily drill of your A B C regiments, your multiplication table platoons, and your chirographical battalions. You say so, factory girl, passing backward and forward from the noise and whirl of wheels in the mills, to the whirl and noise of wheels in your dreams.
The spoor of the right-hand column of the retiring Huns hardly bore out the Rhodesian's statement, but evidently the scout knew his business. "Is MacGregor accompanying us?" he asked, as the three subalterns prepared to rejoin their respective platoons. "Fancy not," replied Danvers. "He's pretty well done up, I imagine.
We got through the business of relieving the trenches in the end, though we had a tough struggle. The great difficulty was to find them. If Platoons Numbers 1 and 2 could have shouted to us or flashed their electric torches we should have got them much sooner than we did. But noise and light were strictly forbidden.
In the mist our posts were soon over-run. Few of our men were left to rally at the 'keeps. A messenger to A Company's platoons, which had been stationed in support at the famous 'Sunken Road, found that place filled with Germans. Before noon the enemy had passed Fayet and his patrols had reached Selency and the Cottages.
The people standing up to go cannot go, but stay and watch them, these thousand children of many ages, this marvellous show of light-heartedness and loyalty. Till at last the costumes drift together in platoons and disappear slowly; and the crowd thins and the last and most stirring act of the commencement-day drama is at hand.
Parties of armed men, in good order, were marching by platoons in the same direction; and formed in line along Broadway, facing the jail-door. Soon a small party was seen to advance to this door, and knock; a parley ensued, the doors were opened, and Casey was led out.
From here companies were employed ration-carrying to the front line and cleaning the trenches. Considerable activity continued to be displayed by the German artillery and aeroplanes, in each of which respect we lacked superiority. The enemy retreat appeared postponed or cancelled. Ignorance of civilians and non-combatants. The front line posts. Hardships and dangers. Support platoons.
Then there was a Church parade in the field at 12.15 p.m. The main points of the padre's sermon were Repentance, Hope, Intention. He also did the same with the other platoons. After tea I had a walk into the village of Watou and purchased some chocolates. Then dinner. The padre tells me that Archbishop Lang is in Poperinghe to-day.
Then the detachment, moving to the right in column of fours, marched at a rapid pace along a comparatively clear path through the scrub. When the three platoons had taken up their position at the indicated spot Wilmshurst's platoon had still a distance of two miles to cover and that two miles was the roughest part of the whole day's march.
A lieutenant then in the Third Virginia Regiment, I happened to be on the rear guard at Newark, and I counted the force under his immediate command by platoons as it passed me, which amounted to less than 3,000 men. A deportment so firm, so dignified, so exalted, but yet so modest and composed, I have never seen in any other person.
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