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I found one long-haired, red-eyed fellow chopping wood for our cook; my appearance caused a signaller, noted for his Hyde Park Corner method of oratory, to cease abruptly a turgid denunciation of the Hun and all his works. The talk was all of a counter-attack by which a battalion of Prussian Guards had won back the eastern corner of Trones Wood, one of the day's objectives.
After preliminary circling and manoeuvring for place, during which one Hun machine discreetly went all out for home, one of our planes swooped straight on to the remaining Hun, pouring a burst of Lewis gun fire into the pilot and observer at short range. Badly wounded, the Hun pilot turned his machine full speed for home.
"But do you suppose our friend the Flighty Hun won't have a peep at us to-morrow morning to see where those shells landed? If he does, or if he takes a photograph, those holes will show up like a chalk-mark on a blackboard; then he has only to tell his gun to step this way a couple of hundred yards and we get it in the neck. I'm inclined to think we'd better up anchor and away."
Of course, down there in Les Errues, some Hun guarding some secret chamois trail into the forbidden wilderness may hear our shots." "We shall have to take that chance," she remarked. He said in the low, quiet voice which always thrilled her a little: "You poor child you are hungry." "So are you, Kay." "Hungry?
They would bomb a dugout rather than take its occupants back. And a dugout that has been bombed yields few living men! Who shall blame them? Not I nor any other man who knows what lessons in brutality and treachery the Canadians have had from the Hun.
A certain obscure passage in the life of Attila the Hun, which had long been a puzzle to students of Gibbon, was for the first time made clear to the average man when Professor Jones, standing on one foot, whirled around rapidly in one direction for five minutes, and then, instantly reversing himself, spun around for ten minutes in the opposite direction.
And if the Hun thinks he is not likely to be disturbed for a couple of hours, what does he do?" "Why," said Murphy, "he comes aboard, removes all the stores he can particularly engine oil and strips the vessel of all her brass, copper and bronze fittings. These metals are very scarce in Germany and they need all they can get in the manufacture of munitions." "Correct!
Algernon glanced at the prodigious figures. "Five hun !" he gasped, recoiling; and added, "Well, I can't pay it on the spot." "Let me tell you, you're liable to proceedings you'd better avoid, sir, for the sake of your relations." "You dare to threaten to expose me to my relatives?"
Every hill-top bristled with them, smaller batteries were in every coign of vantage, while those narrow mountain passes could also be closed at any moment by being blown up when the signal was given against the Hun invaders.
Ambition and spite against her brother must have been the sole motives that led the lady to woo the royal Hun for Attila's face and person had all the national ugliness of his race and the description given of him by a Byzantine ambassador must have been well known in the imperial courts. Herbert has well versified the portrait drawn by Priscus of the great enemy of both Byzantium and Rome:
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