But we pinned him up in his blanket.

It was an awful shock to me.
I couldn't believe a man could be like that after he'd been dead two days....
"The Germans were wonderful with the machine guns--it's a wicked thing, a machine gun.

But they couldn't touch us with the bayonet.

Every time the men came back they had bayonet practice, and they got awfully good.
You know when you thrust at the Germans--so--if you miss him, you bring your rifle back sharp, with a round swing, so that the butt comes up and hits up under the jaw.

It's one movement, following on with the stab, you see, if you miss him.