47/50 I can hardly wait for it." And with that he hopped up on the steps of the nearest car and posed for his picture. I might for example have told him what the captain of a German battery in front of La Fere had said, and that was this: "I have been on this one spot for nearly three weeks now, serving my guns by day and by night. I have lost nearly half of my original force of men and two of my lieutenants. We shoot over those tree tops yonder in accordance with directions for range and distance which come from somewhere else over field telephone, but we never see the men at whom we are firing. They fire back without seeing us, and sometimes their shells fall short or go beyond us, and sometimes they fall among us and kill and wound a few of us. |