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But the patient or orderly who has dwelt in a hospital where, though distances are shorter, staircases are involved or where every trifling coming-and-going of goods or stretchers necessitates the manipulation of a lift blesses those level, smooth corridors, with their facile access to any ward, to operating theatres, kitchens, stores, X-ray room, massage department, etc., and their stepless exit into the open air.
A little after, two more wounded were carried out on stretchers. They were white, silent and motionless. A small crowd had gathered round the man who had fallen by the pond. He was laid on to a stretcher. He seemed rather dazed but did not look pale. A shrapnel ball had hit him in the back. The human loads were pushed into the ambulance which disappeared in a cloud of dust.
These ghastly creatures crawling toward the hospital or borne out on stretchers to the ambulance these yet ghastlier creatures tottering feebly homeward, discharged as cured these corpses of men, of women, of boys and girls, of babies oh, how many corpses of babies! these corpses borne away for burial, usually to the public burying ground all these stricken ones in the battle ever waging, with curses, with hoarse loud laughter, with shrieks and moans, with dull, drawn faces and jaws set all these stricken ones were but the ordinary losses of the battle!
At first the crowd were disposed to stop those bearing the stretchers, uncover the remains and view them, but this was found to be prolific not only of great delay, also scenes of agony that not even the bearers could endure. Now a litter is guarded by a file of soldiers with fixed bayonets, and the people are forced aside until the Morgue is reached.
A building is erected upon the river-bank, about a hundred feet in length and twenty-five feet in width, and open on the side toward the river. The dead are brought there upon stretchers wrapped in a little cloth, and are first shaved by the attendants, who open the mouth and pour down a vial of the water of the sacred Ganges.
VI. Three stretchers might arrive from the shining sands, at the town where the women were weeping and wringing their hands. In that case Miss Mapp saw herself busily employed in strengthening poor Evie, who now was running about like a mouse from group to group picking up crumbs of Cosmic Consciousness.
Where the telephone dug-out had been was now a huge hole a mortar bomb had landed there, and had blown the telephone orderly almost on to the German wire, fifty yards away; great gaps, on which the German machine guns played at intervals, were made all along our parapet; the casualties were being sorted out as well as possible the dead to be carried into an old support trench, and there to await burial, the wounded to be hurried down to the overcrowded dressing station as quickly as the bearers could get the stretchers away; the unhurt scarcely half the company were, for the most part, still gazing up into the sky in the expectation of that twisting, all too familiar, black bomb that has such a terrific devastating power.
And I began to look about for something that might serve as a paddle. But the stretchers had disappeared long since the old tub was a sheer hulk, so to speak. An attempt to tear up a floor board resulted only in a broken nail and bleeding fingers; so I presently desisted, and rolling up my sleeves endeavoured to paddle with my hands.
"Back at second turn," was the answer, in fairly good English. "I go get beds." "He means stretchers," translated Job. "That's our Peruvian foreman. A good fellow, but easily scared." They ran on into the tunnel, Tom and Mr.
The thought chilled me; the air was sharp upon the water, the stretchers of the boat drenched with a cold dew: and I shivered in my place beside the steersman. This was the dark man whom I have called hitherto the Lowlander; his name was Dale, ordinarily called Black Andie.
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