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You would have thought, to look at Jules's face, that he was listening to quite a merry conversation; for that young man was smiling broadly, and, though shells still pitched about them, though many a shrapnel-burst high overhead plastered the ground with bullets, even twitted his comrades.
The kitten, whose name was Smokeball, was a friend of his; soon she would tire of her game and jump up beside him to be petted. Then suddenly, he seemed to hear a girl's voice beside him: "Oh, what a darling little cat! What's its name?" "Smokeball," he said, without thinking. "She's about the color of a shrapnel-burst...." Then he stopped short, looking about.
Presently the little party were crouching round their officer in a sheltered position on the right of the line which for the moment appeared to be "in the air." Except for the intermittent streams of machine-gun fire, and an occasional shrapnel-burst overhead, all was quiet. The enemy's counter-attack was not yet ready.
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