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Witch-hazel twigs ripening indoors transform a peaceful living room into a defenseless target for light artillery practice.
Experience acquired early in the war proved that old-fashioned methods of correcting the aim of artillery for meteorological disturbances were extremely inadequate for modern guns, the projectiles of which rise to altitudes of from 10,000 to 20,000 feet and encounter conditions quite different from those prevailing at the surface.
At the same time, I thought I remembered he had been a pupil at the School of Artillery at Fontainebleau in 1874.
He was not wounded during the Commune; but once when, as a reserve artillery officer, he was assisting at gun-firing at Grenoble he lost the hearing of the left ear, an affliction which saddened him very much.
We have seen that I fell into error by endeavouring to explain this presence-or this thought-by a term at the School of Artillery at Fontainebleau; and I do not see what other explanation can be attempted, since not the slightest trace is left of Antoine’s visit to Fontainebleau with his wife twenty years ago.
We will even attend to the Green Grocer, if he can defend them, and no longer despise the opinions of those scrutators of our dress; but till then we must insist that the hoop (the battery at which most of their present artillery is played off against), when of a moderate size, is an addition to the appearance of a fine woman; it is a finishing grace to their persons, and gives them that dignity of appearance that every woman in a genteel line of life has a right to assume.
Some of the men had it on the most exact and positive authority that they were for the front line and “first over the parapet”; others on equally positive grounds knew that they were to be in reserve and not in the attack at all; that they were to be in support and follow the first line; that there was to be nothing more than an artillery demonstration and no infantry attack at all; that the French were taking over our line for the attack; that we were taking over the French line.
” The Stonewalls had been marching up towards the front by easy stages for three days past, and each day as they marched, and, in fact, each hour of this last day, the uproar of artillery fire had grown steadily greater and greater, until now the air trembled to the violent concussions of the guns, the shriek and rumble of the shells, and occasionally to the more thrilling and heart-shaking shriek of an enemy shell, and the crash of its burst in our lines.
” While they were talking an artillery subaltern was seen crossing the road and hurrying towards18 them.
After that the artillery slowed down to a normal rate of fire, a steady36 succession of bangs and thuds and rumblings, that, after the roaring tempest of noise of the past few minutes, were no more than comparative quiet.
One might have supposed that in the mist it would have been impossible for the gunners to observe and direct any fire, but for all that the artillery on both sides were fairly heavily engaged, and the bangings and thumpings and rumblings rolled away to right and left, until they died down in the distance into the dull, muffled booming of a heavy surf beating on a long beach.
The German artillery and the machine-gunners were evidently too busily occupied upon the more strenuous work61 of checking the advance, or did not think it worth while wasting ammunition upon the small and scattered targets presented by the stretcher-bearers.
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