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Show SOLIUKIIK' SKNSATIO.V IX IIATTIii: i It was recently my privilege to see, In a slnglo period of 30 hours, ' nil the stages through which a wounded soldier of the British army passes from tho tlmo ho is brought back to the most advanced dressing i station on tho Somme until he Is put j aboard the hospital steamer for ling-1 land or sent to a convalescent depot to recuperate his strength in Franco. During this short tlmo I saw Bcvcrul thousand wounded men with Injuries Injur-ies nil tho wny from two hours' old to as many weeks and the ono thing that Impressed mo most (aside, of course, from their magnificent courage cour-age and fortitude) wns tho apparent absence among them of polgnana physical .suffering. One of tho most painfully wounded wound-ed ment I saw wns also ono of tho most slightly wounded. A German shell penetrating deep Into tho soft earth before exploding had driven him, unscathed by tho explosion Itself, It-self, straight through n barbed-wlro cntanglemont. Faring better In ono respect that the man who jumped Into the bramblo bush In the nurs-l cry rhyme, ho did not "scratch out both his eyes," Protected, as they were, by a rather beetling brow, theso escaped Injury; nnd thoy wore about the only part of his unfortun- J nte anatomy that did escape. Whilo thero was not a cut on him over half an Inch deep, neither wero there moro than a few Inches of cuticle at any place on his body that had been spared by tho cruel bnrbs. Somo of tho furrows on his back and legs were over two feet long. "He brought up like a snnrcd partridge," part-ridge," said ono of the doctors who attended him, "In a tnngle of tho wire, nnd they had to cut this away before ho could bo taken out. Although Al-though the cuts were not deep, tho germ-lnden earth of tho Sommo was so thoroughly rubbed Into them that only repeated Injections of nntltoxln saved him from blood poisoning. 1 have never known a human body to 'neutrtilizo' so much antitoxin. During Dur-ing tho first two weoks ho wns hero ho wns constantly In greater pain than any one of tho many hundred of far worse wounded men that passed through our hands In that tlmo. Ono cannot talk long with a Tommy Tom-my on tho Sommo without hearing somo wlerd tale or another of what ho has seen happen to ono of his comrades as a result of shell oxplos-lons oxplos-lons In the trenches. For obvious reasons these tales aro almost Invariably Invari-ably old about some ono else; In fnct, tho ono first-hand recital of such an lncdont that I heard was a far lo3s lllumtnatlvo account of what happened to tho chief actor's comrades. com-rades. I talked with tho man In a hospital where ho had been for a month recovering from crushed pol-vic pol-vic bonos and internal Injuries caused by Impact with the limb, 20 feet from tho ground, of a treo against which ho hnd been thrown by a Gorman shell exploding In his trench. I "I was sitting on a sandbag," ho said, "when tho blighter that dono tho business plumped right Into tho , bottom of tho trench and burled It-! self deep in tho mud before exploding. explod-ing. Up flow mo and sandbag together, to-gether, and tho first thing I know was a 'ell of a crnck noross tho 'lps. nnd there I wns'anglng In the bloom-log bloom-log treo llko Inst week's wash. Didn't 'nvo to 'ang on nt all. It Just plastered plas-tered mo round the Urn' llko n piece of soft meat. I couldn't climb down, and, as they 'ad no ladder, thero was nothing to do but for ono of tho boys to Bhln up nnd let tho remains of mo down to tho end of a line. Courn It 'urt llko 'ell, getting me down, but I'm suro I don't go off In a faint at that stago of tho show, cause Ceaxu . I remember cursing, with the KlXlii? breath I 'nd loft, somo bloke WU-K J' H mooched along nnd was tryin' to soair ' me with n bit of a camr'y 'e'd' urnco gled to tho trenches. Cnmrys lu thou- ,; trenches aro strictly forbid, uni&yacx ran jolly well bellevo I told Inn taT. M I thought of '1m for 'nvlntr lU""tHr H Lewis It. Freomnn, in tho April LMjuv- H lnr Mechanics Magazine. H II III .11. II I M .M M I inr I. 1 |