Others slept in the lee of the haystacks, their red breeches and blue coats making wonderful splashes of color against the yellow grain.

For seven days these same men had been fighting without pause, and battles bore them.
Late in the afternoon, all along the fifteen miles of battle, firing ceased, for the Germans were falling back, and once more Soissons, freed of them as fifteen hundred years ago she had freed herself of the Romans, held out her arms to the Allies..