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Updated: May 31, 2025
Some swivel-chair expert must have been dozing when the order went through sending them to France. In wash-out records they were the grand champions. They had left behind them a long train of cracked props, broken wings, stripped landing gears and a few wrecks so complete that the drivers thereof had been sent home in six foot boxes draped with flags.
No one can understand them who has not been there, where all personal aims are a wash-out and the courage to endure remains one's sole possession. The sisters at the Casualty Clearing Station they understood. The Casualty Clearing Station is the first hospital behind the line to which the wounded are brought down straight from the Dressing-Stations.
There was an expression different from that which I had ever seen on his face before. Just about a half mile ahead of on down a little flat, was a wash-out, and Mr. Hughes said: "Right down there by that little bunch of willows, at that wash- out, is where I intend to make my last fight. Now you boys can do as you please, but I am exhausted and can go no further."
At the start of the war there were a good many persons whom we were apt to think of as common and unclean. But social distinctions are a wash-out in the trenches. We have seen St. Peter's vision, and have heard the voice, "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." Until I became a part of the war, I was a doubter of nobility in others and a sceptic as regards myself.
Along about ten o'clock a starting-order come down the track-gang by that time having the wash-out so near fixed it would be fit by the time the train got there to go across; and Wood he was the agent, Wood was sent word over to the Forest Queen to the old gent, who was the only Pullman passenger, he'd better be coming along. In five minutes or so he showed up.
Into his own room he stepped quietly, his room where he had collected his various implements and chemicals. First of all he set out, on the floor, a two-quart copper tea-kettle; and beside this, choosing carefully, he ranged the necessary ingredients for a "making" of his secret explosive. "Now, the wash-out water," said he, taking another larger dish. Over to the water-pail he walked.
What are you doing? You don't look any too busy." Peter glanced across at Langton and laughed. "We aren't," he said. "The whole stunt's a wash-out, if you ask me, and we're really expecting to be sent back any day. There's too much doing now for lectures. Is the hospital full?" "Packed," said Julie gravely.
Travis came to the ticklish spot near the bridge, and stopped to listen. Here the ditch cut through beds of clean sand, where the water might sink and work back into the old ground, the sand holding it like a sponge, till all the bottom became a bog, and the banks sank in one wide-spread, general wash-out.
Every one of them seemed to be watching the coming of that bobbing object as though the fate of the world depended on its taking a direct course for the building standing alone in the flood. "Seems like she was coming right along over the same course we did; how about that, Max?" called out Steve, presently, as the boat drew steadily closer to the fugitives of the wash-out.
Being that sort of weather, nobody was paying no attention worth speaking of to nothing: and when the Denver train come in being about three hours late, like it had a way of being, after a wash-out the place was in such a blister that pretty much all you could hear to show anybody was alive in Palomitas was snores.
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