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Show ! How a Soldier Feels In Battle The worst time the soldier passes through, says a veteran, is not when he is under fire no matter how thick the bullets fly but about half an hour before the battle begins. Whether a man is a novice or an old campaigner he is pretty sure to feel solemn then' His thnmrhta turn l. j . u n,s nome and friends; he speculates on the possibility pos-sibility that he may be spending his last hours on earth. In fact, nothing makes so great an impression on the soldier's mind as the time he spends just before the battle. It sobers the most daring and reckless men. But the mood soon passes. Within five or ten minutes after the firing has commenced com-menced all the depression has disappeared disap-peared and is succeeded by a feeling of keen arcftement amounting In some |