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Title: "Ladies from hell,"
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Robert Douglas
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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g the landing-place of a German bullet. We immediately took to the ditch and draggedour heavy tools to the communication-trench.But, even so, we were still observed and were sub-jected to a heavy machine-gun fire, which sweptacross at a nasty angle and bagged three of theboys. Our line at this point bent back from the Ger-man line in a great half-circle. Thus to commandit required practically double the number of men.It was the work of this evening to straighten thisbend and so release the men there for serviceelsewhere. As soon as darkness fell we went over the topfrom a listening-post. There were about one hun-dred and fifty of us on the job. The German lineswere about five hundred yards away. Five hun-dred yards is not a great distance when there isnothing between you and the German fire. Butfortunately our occupation was not discovered,and we spread out across no-mans-land in aragged line and began to scratch ourselves in withthe enthusiasm of a bull-pup seeking a long-buriedbone.
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THE FARM-HOUSE 175 At frequent intervals we would hear across thestillness of the night the preliminary hiss of aflare, and, from a forest of bobbing heads, no-mans-land became as vacant as a cemetery, to alloutward appearances, at least. We were barely well started on our work, whenour outposts screen, about thirty feet in frontof us, reported a strong German working-partycoming our way. Rifles were hurriedly securedand loaded, and available protection was at a pre-mium. By good fortune, however, the working-party drifted in the opposite direction, and beforethe first streaks of dawn crept up over the horizona neat trench had been prepared. The dirt hadbeen evenly distributed over several yards, so thateven from the German observation-balloon ournew position was not apparent. This shortening of the line and all the prelim-inary work in plotting the machine-guns of theopposing forces was merely the prelude to a localattack. This took place one evening shortly afterdusk, when five hund

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