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from the lower fighting position, which meant to turn round in circles rather than to go ahead.

The events which I am relating in chronological order, and in the form of a connected narrative were, of course, not recorded in this manner by me, but were told me at different times and by different people. To attempt, however, to give in detail these half-finished sentences, interrupted suddenly by the burst of a shell close by — the jerked-out remarks thrown at one in passing — the separate words accompanied by gestures, more eloquent far than any words — would be impossible and useless. At that moment, when every one's nerves were highly strung, an exclamation or wave of the hand took the place of many words, fully and clearly interpreting