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A shave would be the second item. In a small inferior café near the Boulak Station, he discovered Jock, an artilleryman he knew, and together they satisfied their thirst; neither had formed any plan for the afternoon, so both welcomed the idea of spending it in company. They adjourned to the barber's.
'All a false alarm just a dodge to get your men's heads up within reach of their Fizz-Bangs' shrapnel, said the artilleryman, and called to the signaller. 'All guns raise twenty-five. Section fire five seconds. . . . Hullo hit? he continued to the Platoon officer, as he noticed him wiping a smear of blood from his cheek. 'Just a nice little scratch, said the lad, grinning.
This artilleryman, who was not a native Russian, but one of the foreigners whom the Czar had enlisted in his service, became exasperated at some ill treatment which he received from the Russian nobleman who commanded his corps; so he secretly drove nails into the touchholes of all the guns in the battery, and then, in the night, went over to the Turks and informed them what he had done.
By the scream of a shell the practised ear of the artilleryman can tell whether it comes from a gun with a low trajectory or from a howitzer, whose projectile rises higher and falls at a sharper angle which enables it to enter the trenches; and he can even tell approximately the calibre.
That may be all very well in a salon, or in the drawings you see in 'La Vie Parisienne, but it takes something more than that to be a true officer. He's got to know the ropes at playing miner, bombarder, artilleryman, engineer, optician, accountant, caterer, undertaker, hygienist, carpenter, mason I can't tell you what all.
The arrival and departure of royalty were always announced at the palace by the court artilleryman a fat old gentleman who, in a prodigious hurry and perspiration, discharged minute fowling-pieces as fast as he could load and fire the same. The Tahitian princess leads her husband a hard life. Poor fellow! he not only caught a queen, but a Tartar, when he married her.
There is, we are told, a wonderful artilleryman in the fort before St. Denis, the perfection of whose aim carries death and destruction into the Prussian ranks. I am not sorry to learn that the sale of the ultra papers is not large. M. Blanqui's office was yesterday broken into by some National Guards, who made it clear to this worthy that he had ill chosen his moment to attack the Government.
The senator had told him a few days before that her brother, the artilleryman, had just been killed at Verdun. "How many are falling!" he said mournfully to himself. "How hard it will be for his poor mother!" But he smiled immediately after at the thought of those to be born. Never before had the people been so occupied in accelerating their reproduction.
We want to get by want to get by " "A railroad gun on a flat car placed " The artilleryman began to crow. "It's Lieutenant Barry and the railroad gun! Siege piece run on a car. Iron penthouse over it, muzzle sticking out engine behind "
John Clare loudly proclaimed his intention of becoming a soldier, ready to fight his way up to generalship. 'Do you mean it? inquired the tall gentleman in uniform. 'Of course I do, retorted John, somewhat nettled at the incredulity of his neighbour. 'Well, if you really mean it, resumed the artilleryman, 'take that shilling. John, without hesitation, took the shilling.
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