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Updated: May 14, 2025
And how could they load when the seats and the limber-boxes were still locked, and when the gun was still covered? The clever lieutenant had forgotten the word of command that should properly have been given before leaving the gun-park. And the best of it was that he didn't even now notice what was wrong. Wegstetten, close at hand, kept quite still.
There was a lot of real hard work to do during these weeks; but it was all done with a good will. Actual gun-practice was a very different thing from that dull work in garrison with blank cartridges. The magazine where the ammunition was stored lay at some little distance from the other buildings, near the gun-park, and was surrounded by a thick high wall of earth.
The long line of men, horses and vehicles, with the band preceding them, then entered the encampment. The sentry at the gate had to present arms so incessantly that he became quite exhausted. A considerable time elapsed before the last officer had passed in. The guns and carriages were taken to the gun-park. The horses were unharnessed, and the knapsacks unfastened from the guns.
Wegstetten took the precaution of accompanying the young man himself, so that he might be able to come to the rescue in case of necessity. He was soon needed. The battery started from the gun-park and left the camp, turning off the road and crossing the heather towards the broad level stretch of the exercise-ground.
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