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Learn to duck, when you hear a Minnie grunt or a whizzbang cut loose; or a five-nine begin to whimper. Learn not to bother to duck when the rifles get to jabbering for you'll never hear the bullet that gets you. Study the nocturnal habits of machine-guns and the ways of snipers and the right time not to play the fool.
Shells of various sizes were sprinkling the landscape impartially about ten or fifteen in the minute; none very close a black burst on the brown hill two white shrapnel puffs five hundred yards on one side a huge brick-red cloud over the skyline an angry little high-explosive whizzbang a quarter of a mile down the hill behind.
There may not have been more than fifteen shells in the minute, but it seemed, looking along that path, more like thirty. They were of all sorts mixed ugly, black, high-explosive shrapnel bursting with the crash of a big shell; little, spiteful whizzbang field gun tearing into the brown earth; 5.9 shells flinging up fountains of it.
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