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Updated: May 25, 2025
And then the only thing you can do is to trust to your Yankee luck. I remember " "'When eyes are no use'?" repeated the recruit. "If you mean after dark, at night haven't we got the searchlights and the starshells and all that?" "Son," replied Mahan, "we have. Though I don't see how you ever guessed such an important secret.
Sometimes as they marched they would see the starshells, going up and bursting like rockets, and coming down With a wavering slow settling motion, as white and bright as burning magnesium wire, shedding a kind of dust of light upon the trench and making the blackness intense when they went out.
"And was Val under fire at the time?" "Under heavy fire. The Boches were sending up starshells that made the place as light as day." "I can't understand how Val could do it with his broken arm." "His arm wasn't broken when he cut their wires." "Oh! When was it then?" Hyde flicked with his stick at the airy heads of grass that rose up thin-sown out of a burnished carpet of lady's slipper.
Among these some, either accidentally or by design, sent bursting shrapnel all around him. He heard the wings being struck repeatedly but, knowing his great speed, he hoped to be out of range almost at once. With the sound of big guns the whole front was lighted up here and there with flares and starshells, many being sent up from shell holes concealed from all but their own side.
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