"If you do not think it too foolish to expose yourself, you will be able to look over the top of the parapet.

First of all you will see our lines of barbed wire fencing and entanglements.

Beyond the wire you will see open ground, much torn by shell-holes.

Further still you will see the wire defenses of the German first trench, and then the parapet that screens the enemy from your gaze." Hardly had the French lieutenant finished when Dick was up and peering with all his might and curiosity.

Hardly an instant later the bark of a field-gun was heard to the northward.