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Updated: May 3, 2025
Except for the mildness of the air that entered it might have been midwinter yet in the city that turns such a frowning face to besieging spring. But spring doesn't come with the thunder of cannon. She is a sapper and a miner, and you must capitulate. "I'll try it," said Mr. Peters to himself, making a wry face. He went up to his wife and put his arm across her shoulders.
The artilleryman will have to work his gun single-handed when the section leaders and gun captains have fallen victims to the shrapnel fire; the patrols and despatch-riders are often left to themselves in the middle of the enemy's country; and the sapper, who is working against a counter-mine, will often find himself unexpectedly face to face with the enemy, and has no resource left beyond his own professional knowledge and determination.
A clever elderly man, the sapper, or Sabuim, already mentioned I think I never heard his real name instructed us in the trades of the book binder and cabinet-maker. He was said to have served under Napoleon as a sapper, and afterwards settled in our neighbourhood, and found occupation in Keilhau. He was skilful in all kinds of manual labour, and an excellent teacher.
Say, I'd rather be a lamp-post at the foot of Michigan Boulevard in Chicago than the whole electric light system in all the rest of the universe!" We turned from this young American to Sapper W of Western Canada, who had just been through the same battle underground, and asked him to tell us his own story. "Well, sir, long before the battle we were digging under Hill Number 60.
A clever elderly man, the sapper, or Sabuim, already mentioned I think I never heard his real name instructed us in the trades of the book binder and cabinet-maker. He was said to have served under Napoleon as a sapper, and afterwards settled in our neighbourhood, and found occupation in Keilhau. He was skilful in all kinds of manual labour, and an excellent teacher.
The officers passed on and the new men began to dig. Sapper Duffy also resumed work, and as he did so he noticed there was something familiar about the bulky shape of the new digger next to him. 'What lot are you? asked the new man, heaving out the first spadeful rapidly and dexterously. 'We're 'A' Section, Southland Company, said Duffy, 'an' I say ain't you Beefy Wilson?
To this is added, as a rider, that in the absence of an adequate supply of fire, you must draw fire. So the Sapper walks cheerfully about on the tops of parapets, hugging large and conspicuous pieces of timber, or clashing together sheets of corrugated iron, as happy as a king. "You will find this house quite snug," continued the Brigadier.
He was an ogre, a choirister, a sapper, and so was I, I must confess, and, upon my word, I cannot remember what we talked about during our Gargantuan feed! But we certainly talked, but what about? About shooting, certainly, and about women most probably. Confound it! Among men, after drinking! Yes, yes, about women, I am quite sure, and he told some funny stories, did the little old man!
They also caught and took away a sapper who would go trying to plunder for as to plunder there was and is literally nothing but rubbish and fleas, the Russians having carried off everything else. But you would be surprised at the extraordinary rarity of knick-knacks. They left their pictures in the churches, which form consequently the only spoil, and which I do not care about buying.
Rapidly and without confusion the men did their appointed jobs; the great stalk slithered down the gun, the bomb big as a football filled with high explosive was fixed with a detonator, the lanyard to fire the charge was adjusted. Then every one cleared out of the emplacement, while the Sapper took his stand in the trench outside. "Let her rip."
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