| Show SIZE DIDN'T COUNT I Thought That Heartened Young British Soldier Helped to Overcome Natural Nervousness Nervous neS ness need of His First Physical Impact Impact Im Im- I pact With th the th H Hune Realized Hune-Realized ne Realized Die It Was Fight or T Tommy Kehoe a year sixteen old English boy boT tells tens how bow he got his bis first Hun HUll Not a hundred feet away awny they J were when our lads fads were Jumping to the parapet to meet them with their bayonets baronets 1 J mode made a leap for the Ule top t f of the ladder r grabbed at It It missed and slipped lIpped back Somebody reached out Dt e I hand and pulled polled me mc up Almost on us they then were cre Oh Ob never neverIn j jIn In my worst dreams dreams and and Ive I've had many ninny a bad one since then then have have I 1 If f seen seen a Ii more dreadful sight than that that- Th They y came at us os out of the dark like tr c tends fiends from another world like the thet pictures Ive I've seen of men from Mars t for their h he heads ads were covered with the I I f. f most evil looking masks that anybody could Imagine masks with huge round eyes eres and long piggish snouts Shells r- r were bursting above them machine guns were tearing through their rank ranks J and their masks w were re white find and r. r ly Ir In the light of ot the rockets Many I ny a n time I had thought of what war would woold be like but never had I thought tho I 1 should hould look on such a sight as that Fight or die Tommy Kehoe 1 FI ht or yr uie ole i what I told myself n as 1 crouched In front of the nn hags with my bayonet baronet ready for tor them j Whopping Whopping big men they were head hend and shoulders above me But as os 1 J waited there a i thou thought ht flashed tJ through me of the Bantam regiment little fellows scarcely bigger than I. I who who had hod made good against even thus those E giant ant Prussians Size didn't count behind behind behind be be- hind a bayonet It was quickness that counted I was as sure of It If It didn't then It was all over oer with me roe Even then when they were almost almo t tup Up to us how the guns were mowing them down I r looked It-looked as os It If none could be left In a 0 moment or two But those that didn't fall aU came on like madmen and poured through the lanes hines where the big guns had leveled our wires One One One-he he was a six footer If It he ho was waa an Inch Inch ron ran straight for tor me with his bayonet baronet I crouched and thrust at him thrust upward Ills His Is bayonet went over Mer my mr shoulder houlder He staggered and fell over my gun n. n I had got him I I had got him I In the stomach 1 luck lucky for me there was no notime notime notime time to think over o It or to stand there gaping at et him the him the dead Hun nun hanging over OTer my gun with his masked head bend almost touching me for me-for for It was horri horri- ble For a se second ond or two I turned diz- diz cy Ef 1 and sick But Bot It was fight again or die cUe I Jerked my rifle back and stumbled stumbled sturn- sturn bled over the dead man as os he be flopped to the ground Make for tor their stomachs Tommy Echoer r Make Mahe for tor their stomachs stomacher F 1 I Iteld told tete myself Size dont don't count i |
