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He gave vivid little pictures of the noises of the bombardment, of the dead lying casually in the open spaces, of the failure of the German guns to hit the bridge of boats across which the bulk of the defenders and refugees escaped. He produced a little tourist's map of the city of Antwerp, and dotted at it with a pencil-case. "The what do you call? obus, ah, shells! fell, so and so and so."

I am preparing at the present moment a small treatise on Submarine Geography; I am conducting, if that gives me any right to be heard, the geographical department in the chief gymnasium here: in addition, my youngest sister lost her ulnar bone by the explosion of an obus in the seminary on the night of August 18th, when six innocent infants were killed or maimed by the Prussians, who put a bomb in their little beds like a warming-pan."

It was what the French call an obus, a word that in some subtle manner seems more menacing and dreadful than our own term of shell. As we sped on I leaned against the cushions, outwardly quiet. Inwardly, I was gathering myself together for my attempt. I had not thought I would first approach the Front this way; but it was a good way, I had a good object.

We need the obus. My captain calling, 'Crack! More, still more of those obus! Giving them the bayonet in the bowels, we shall chase them clean beyond the Rhine. And our victory will be won to the waltz of the obus." It was a song out of the heart of an unconquerable boy. It climbed the hillock to the top. The response was the answer of men moved. His song told them why they fought on.

It will be a cannon, because the powder-magazine will have the same diameter as the chamber. It will be a howitzer, because it will hurl an obus. Lastly, it will be a mortar, because it will be pointed at an angle of 90°, and that without any chance of recoil; unalterably fixed to the ground, it will communicate to the projectile all the power of impulsion accumulated in its body."

"Certainly, certainly only chere amie you know that that as I before announced to thee, I I was engaged in marriage and and " "But are you married?" "No, no. Hark! Take care is not that the hiss of an obus?" "What then? Let it come! Would it might slay us both while my hand is in thine!" "Ah!" muttered Gustave, inwardly, "what a difference! This is love! No preaching here!

Other trains came and went, trains weighted with bellowing cattle or huddled sheep, trains choked with small square boxes marked "Cartouches" or "Obus 7^me"; trains piled high with grain or clothing, or folded tents packed between varnished poles and piles of tin basins.

But my friend "the Irish clergyman" wrote me a full account of what he heard with his own ears; which was to the effect that none of the sounds, vowels or consonants, were foreign; that the strange words were moulded after the Latin grammar, ending in -abus, -obus, -ebat, -avi, &c., so as to denote poverty of invention rather than spiritual agency; and that there was no interpretation.

The shells, which the Parisians called "obus," were like an old-fashioned sugar-loaf, and weighed sometimes one hundred and fifty pounds.

"Certainly, certainly only chere amie you know that that as I before announced to thee, I I was engaged in marriage and and " "But are you married?" "No, no. Hark! Take care is not that the hiss of an obus?" "What then? Let it come! Would it might slay us both while my hand is in thine!" "Ah!" muttered Gustave, inwardly, "what a difference! This is love! No preaching here!

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