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Updated: May 17, 2025
"You're a saacy nigger," said Basset, "and if I sarved you right, I'd clap you into the workhouse." "Missa Basset, you bery mad; and when a man is mad, he always onreasonable. But fire away it keep you warm, and stop you catching cold." "Onreasonable! when a fellow's been sprawling about in snow and cornstalks, for more'n two hours, and got more'n half froze! How would you like it?"
I slept by the roadside for an hour. I was woken up to take a message to 2nd Corps at Saacy. On my return I was lucky enough to see a very spectacular performance. From the point which I call A to the point B is, or ought to be, 5000 yards. At A there is a gap in the wood, and you get a gorgeous view over the valley.
Shrapnel bullets simply rattled against the old house, and an occasional common shell dropped near by way of variety. The Cyclists were restive, and I was too, so to relieve the situation I proposed breakfast. King and I had half a loaf of Saacy bread and half a pot of jam I always carried about with me. The rest went to the men.
They were repulsed with very heavy losses; their reinforcements, which had arrived the day before, were practically annihilated. It was a bad day. That night it was showery, and I combined vain attempts to get to sleep between the showers with a despatch to 2nd Corps at Saacy and another to the Division Ammunition Column the other side of Charnesseuil.
Our object was obviously to prevent them achieving theirs. Look at the map and grasp these three things: The two rivers the Petit Morin debouching so as to cover the German left centre. From La Ferté westwards the rivers run in deep ravines, hemmed in by precipitous thickly-wooded hills. Only two bridges across the Marne remained one large one at La Ferté and one small one at Saacy.
I was very tired, and, careless of who passed, stretched myself at the side of the road for a sleep. I was wakened an hour later, and we all went along together to the chateau. There we slept in the hall before the contented faces of some fine French pictures or the majority of them, the rest were bestially slashed. Scouts had reported that Saacy had been evacuated by the enemy.
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