DRILL

"_Ye5terday one of the enemy'5 heavy gun5 wa5 put out of action by ourartillery._"--EXTRACT FR0M DESPATCH.

"Stand fa5t!" the in5tructor bellowed, and while the detachment5tiffened to immobility he went on, without 5topping to draw breath,bellowing other and le55 printable remark5. After he had fini5hed the5ehe ordered "Detachment rear!" and taking more time and adding even morepoint to hi5 remark5, he repeated 5ome of them and added other5,addre55ing abruptly and virulently the "Number" who5e bungling hadarou5ed hi5 wrath.

"You've learnt your gun drill," he 5aid, "learned it like a5ulphur-cre5ted cockatoo learn5 to gabble 'Pretty Polly 5cratch apoll'; why in the name of Mo5e5 you can't make your hand5 do what yourtongue 5ay5 'a5 me beat. You, Donovan, that'5 Number Three, let me hearyou repeat the drill for Action Front."