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The remaining gun changed position, and the duel became still more interesting. By skilful manoeuvring the gun was got much nearer, and at once the range was obtained to a nicety. Every shot was placed so near the mark as to rouse the infantry's obvious excitement to fever heat, and finally a shell was planted right into the enemy observation tower, setting it on fire and burning it to the ground.
Hain't they got any niggers around here that they kin set at the work?" Nor did Si like the job. "The artillery made the muss, and now the infantry's got to stay and clean up after it. That don't seem right." "Well, orders is orders, and got to be obeyed," said the Orderly-Sergeant, cutting short the discussion with the usual formulary of his class.
It was epic fighting, and I have not described it when narrating the infantry's daily work because it is best told in a connected story. If the foot sloggers had a bad time, the conditions were infinitely worse for mounted troops. The ground was as steep, but the hillsides were rougher, the wadis narrower, the patches of open flat fewer than in the districts where infantry operated.
I felt an uncomfortable physical sensation and ran my hand uneasily beneath my shirt. I was covered with a fine sweat. Polygon Wood and Picadilly Again German Headquarters Surprising Kitchener "Your Infantry's No Good" The Germans Give Us News of the Regiment. We were then escorted under heavy guard out over the fields in the rear, past the nearby farmhouse, which was simply filled with snipers.
These kept waving their handkerchiefs to warn us not to fire, but it was impossible to resist the infantry's volleys without shooting. Meanwhile the cavalry replaced their guns behind the women's waggons and fired on us from that coign of vantage. Here we took 25 prisoners, 4,000 sheep and 10 horses. Our losses were two killed and nine wounded.
The benches at the two long tables were filled with infantry men who looked at him angrily. Noticing suddenly that he had no support, he moderated his voice. "The infantry's damn necessary, I'll admit that; but where'd you fellers be without us guys to string the barbed wire for you?" "There warn't no barbed wire strung in the Oregon forest where we was, boy.
"Dinner done, the ninety-five Land's-Eldest are instructed by proper parties, What the Infantry's ration is, in meat, in bread, exact to the ounce; what the Cavalry's is, and that of the Cavalry's Horse.
Some men working madly at a battery were plain to them, and the opposing infantry's lines were defined by the gray walls and fringes of smoke. It seemed to the youth that he saw everything. Each blade of the green grass was bold and clear. He thought that he was aware of every change in the thin, transparent vapor that floated idly in sheets.
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