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As the military authorities had proclaimed, this destruction did not materially affect the position of the belligerents the English could not get much nearer their object by shelling the town but it did much to dishearten the citizens, and produced a strong moral effect of depression, and murmurs even arose in isolated quarters that it would be better to surrender than to be destroyed.
We took the matter up, then, where we left off yesterday, all our batteries coming into action and shelling the hills most furiously. The enemy replied with three guns only, but so well placed were they that we found it impossible to silence them.
Every few minutes the Huns would start shelling Wiltje and we would come into their "Zone of influence." The shells that missed the roofs of the houses from the north would pitch over into our lines and we had to duck and count ten when we heard them coming. While we were being jolly well shelled in these trenches an incident occurred which was of extraordinary interest.
He says that firing never ceases, and it is impossible to reach these men, who die of starvation within sight of their comrades. "Sometimes," Alan said, "we see them raise themselves on an arm for an instant, and they yell to us to come to them, but we can't." His own wound was received when the Germans "got their range to an inch" and began shelling their trenches.
This time there was but a short pause made opposite Metemmeh, and after shelling the forts, which had been added to since the last visit, they proceeded up the river. Shortly after passing the town, a large Dervish camp was seen in a valley, and this, they afterwards found, was occupied by the force that had returned from Berber.
The instant after a shell exploded in the garden outside, within a few yards of the window. Grace sank on her knees with a shriek of terror. Mercy, without losing her self-possession, advanced to the window and looked out. "The moon has risen," she said. "The Germans are shelling the village." Grace rose, and ran to her for protection. "Take me away!" she cried.
The comment that was made by the private soldier was simply two words, and those two words were "O, shucks." The Yankees had gone no one knew whither and our batteries were shelling the woods, feeling for them. "O, shucks." "Hello," says Hood, "Whar in the Dickens and Tom Walker are them Yanks, hey? Feel for them with long-range 'feelers'." A boom, boom. "Can anybody tell me whar them Yanks are?
H. was going to headquarters for the requisite pass, and he saw General Pemberton crawling out of a cave, for the shelling had been as hot as ever. He got the pass, but did not act with his usual caution, for the boat he secured was a miserable, leaky one a mere trough.
Sergeant Matthews got a wound in the leg, and we had to carry him. Just as we started, they got to shelling pretty bad and we dropped into a hole. I looked over my shoulder and there was the Pilot, the chaplain, sir, I mean, with his body spread over Sergeant Matthews, to keep off the shrapnel. It was there he got it." "Damn Sergeant Matthews," exclaimed the major, and passed on.
"In Thuringia, at Saalfeld, a servant-girl fell asleep whilst her companions were shelling nuts. They observed a little red mouse creep from her mouth and run out of the window. One of the fellows present shook the sleeper, but could not wake her, so he moved her to another place.
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