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Show The Trifles of an Earlier Day I In the great Meuse-Argonne advance ad-vance two doughboys were sq'iatted in a shell hole for shelter. In another an-other minute or two they expected an order to go forward again against the German positions. The enemy i' was pouring everything lie had in i their direction. Ma'hiiie-gmi bullets , were whining by jte-t ahove il,eir j heads. High explosives on 1 shrapm-1 : shells were l.tir-ting about :! . : i;und:d- of gor,s. big i.nd little, roared and thundered. One of th" fcol'i -ts u:rne.'l ii'.R l'o;i(l toward bis con pi.nl-m. ! "I','.:d'!y." be si'id. "I've jwsi l.p.-n 1 layin' here thin-in'." ' "II I of a ti-ne to i.e thinkia' " ! said hi pal: 'What w re ou liiiokin' I about?" "I v.:;s tbinkir.' !in v a fellow's ( fer'in's g..'t i ! i ; ; n l' i d in t'ois war." ' "'!.f.t do you nc;.n Pt cli::n-od?' I "v'.'In. ono" i:p.n a til'ie. l;:ot; I ho:iie. u f :'. with a tl .i-'y-eigbl ehl.i or i-istol run ut ph""' -ui of vwz." |