Army Boys on the Firing Line, from 'The Storm of War' (in First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. II )

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CHAPTER I

FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS

"The Huns are coming!" exclaimed Frank Sheldon, as from the American
front line his keen, gray eyes searched a broad belt of woodland three
hundred yards away.

"Bad habit they have," drawled his special chum and comrade, Bart
Raymond, running his finger along the edge of his bayonet. "We'll have
to try to cure them of it."

"I think they're getting over it to some extent," remarked Tom
Bradford, who stood at Frank's left. "The last time they tried to rush
us they went back in a bigger hurry than they came. What we did to
them was a shame!"

"They certainly left a lot of dead men hanging on our wires," put in
Billy Waldon. "But there are plenty of them ready to take their
places, and the Kaiser's willing to fight to the last man, though you
notice he keeps his own precious skin out of the line of fire."

"I think Frank's getting us on a string," chaffed Tom, when some
minutes had passed in grim waiting. "I don't see any Heinies. Trot
out your Huns, Frank, and let's have a look at them."

"You'll see them soon enough," retorted Frank. "I saw the flash of
bayonets in that fringe of woods and I'm sure they're massing."

"Do you remember that little thrilly feeling that used to go up and
down our spines when we were green at the war game?" grinned Bart. "I
feel it now to some extent, but nothing to what I did at first."