whr-r-row

Updated: May 8, 2025

Another nod, another "Whr-r-row?/" from somewhere behind us, and this time the cottony puff was just short of the clump of trees where the Russians had concealed their battery. I picked up the spot through the glass and one might have known ! there was One of those eternal peasants calmly swinging his scythe about fifty yards short of the spot where the shrapnel had exploded.

Arthur Ruhl - Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them