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Updated: May 3, 2025
Then we said good-bye to our friends, and struck out into the morning sunshine, leaving the village of song behind. Yes! in Sheldon Center they sing from morning till night at grave-making! It was a spacious morning of windswept sunshine, with a wintry bite in the keen air.
"Digging in the garden" Tommy calls the grave-making. The bodies, wrapped in blankets or waterproof ground-sheets, are lifted over the parados, and carried back a convenient twenty yards or more. The desolation of that garden, choked with weeds and a wild growth of self-sown crops, is indescribable.
Yes, he laughed, and he had heard that heart-breaking recital; and the life of the man for whom he pleaded was hardly worth a pin's fee. The words of the poet rushed involuntarily to my mind. "Heaven!" I mentally exclaimed, "Has this fellow no feeling of his business he sings at grave-making!"
Grave-making; and if the two hapless boys quailed at that awful sound, can we accuse them of cowardice? No. Assuredly not. Who amongst the bravest could listen to such a sound unmoved? To have been callous to such a thing would have shown them mere senseless logs, nothing more. "You know what that is?" she said, in a faint voice. "We do," responded Harry Girdwood. "And you?"
The grave-making went speedily on, while the burial party argued in whispers as to the caliber of the guns. Some said they were six-inch, while others thought nine-inch. Discussion was momentarily suspended when a trench rocket shot in an arc from the enemy's line. We crouched, motionless, until the welcome darkness spread again. And then, in loud whispers: "'Ere!
We should not have been human if we had not advanced with a Hamlet-Horatio air: "Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?" We found our four friends in a space of the churchyard from which the tombstones had been temporarily removed, engaged, not with mattock and death's head, but with spirit-level and measuring-cord.
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